Candles

• Daniella Brooks, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2003

A night of light
A night of fright
Trees dancing in the breeze
The oceans roaring at the seas

Paintings shudder on the wall
The mood that shows them all
If you were alone in this room
Everything would scare you

The time is going
The water still flowing
The lights are flashing
The thunder crashing

But in the soft candlelight
All mystery takes flight
The music soothes my mind
Like the voice of a little child