The candle that makes dark retreat

When you’re gone I’ll think of every missed call

I’ll summon your sunny warmth and laughter

Without you, who will catch me if I fall?

Your stars always kept night lit long after

You are the candle that makes dark retreat

You’ll burn in my mind past the dying flame

To love you is to let in all your heat

Which has charred me when you had no aim

Does it get hard being keeper of light? 

When the love that you give leaves you empty handed

While in your bluest days you shone as bright

Did you restrain when darkness demanded?

I guess all we really have is today

How ever could I have wished time away?