Bird As Fish

Fire
Sitting over the clearest of water
A small white flame
Votif
To ask, to petition, to pray
We pray for you
Funereal light now
From wedding plans
Candles burn
I pray.

Grieving, grieving
But still the silence
Of one lone flame
Sitting over the clearest of water
Breath.
It disappears.

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