The flares of life, the torches The things to see when you slip into reason The flares are there, dancing in the corner Subtle reminders And you see now that all around you Is dancing silently As if to be discreet As if life was all a discreet landscape Just dancing subtly around you In the flame or where it resides Next to the spent candle Little containers, shrubs in your garden Just light them and see They have a way of showing you what you Were missing The seem eternal to me You need a light to see in the dark Here they come to life Come to you little flowers of the dark Little flames in an hourglass Traveling towards death Like us, they move down Showing their descent To the eyes they have illuminated