A candle

I wrote this poem so far back to 1995 when I was in school the first year for our school newspaper. As a freshman, I was really challenged to overcome the results of the "greatest." This poem is very special to me because it is the product of my desire to do greater things than what the elderly can do. Poetry that conveys not just the little things are bright and beautiful, quite useful. Its meaning is universal and multi-dimensional.

I've been using a basic style in writing this poem. I looked rhyme and simple language. To add a little touch, I personally candle. Basically, the whole poem is a dialogue between the reader and the candle. The setting is in Bethlehem where Jesus was born child. It 'was the first Christmas, however, is not clearly said. Context clues that I gave to say.

Because of its simplicity, poetry was published in our newspaper and on our school yearbook. The poem was published in hardback edition volume Quill Books, A Time To Be Free, last 1998 in Harlingen, Texas.

A candle
by Maranan Siyangbigay Jocell

O little candle in the night!,
burning bright in the room!
His head bowed humbly,
pointing back and forth so slowly

Look out the window brick!
See shooting stars below!
See the moon and the brightness lasting!
Feel the Night and her chilling cold!

You are comparably smaller,
those decorative celestial wonders
How could you do the dark,
turned out to be the brightest?

Why you have to sacrifice,
yourself so scarce that enough?
If you are enough for the night,
to make the room very bright?