Three Times I Have Loved

1.
The love of my youth
shone purely
sweetly
full of joy
and celebration
bright in the darkness

2.
Hot, consuming
wildly leaping
unreliable as light
quickly extinquished

3.
Long wick
burning slowly
steady
made enduring
three lights encircling
blow the flame
shield from the wind
relight when flame dims

Blessed I am.
Three times I have loved.