50 - These Dim Flickering Lights

These are dim flickering lights these loves they will go out and have to be looked after they don’t stay lit for some magic or fate you want to dream up they are forever just about to go out they are always scraps of paper ready to be lost down the back of the couch they get ripped up into the sky by winds in fires their corners curl their centres pop you can drop these loves like a ticket between the train and the platform and it’s already too late to stop everything try asking the driver to reverse slowly while you reach down and retrieve them see if they’ll go behind schedule for this ticket that is your love think again life does not work like that even if it does sometimes seem to glide on polished rails and drop joys into your lap you might not be paying attention so if it does present you with one of these dim flickering lights then whatever you do do not simply sit on our arse and hope it’ll all work out fine don’t ignore it or say I’m just popping to the loo be back in a sec you might have to protect the flame somehow cup your hand around it while you can find some better solution keep it hidden away but somewhere just right somewhere with enough air to keep it burning meanwhile you have to find some way always with one eye on the flame to make sure it’s not going to go out to build it up you can get it going turn it into a fire it will happen if you really want it to but you have to be extremely careful and you have to know what you’re doing and boy is it hard to know what you’re doing when you’ve never done it before it’s exhausting tending to these dim flickering lights that are these loves that we build our lives around.