Light a single candle,
For this fate I did not choose.
Through it I have lost,
More than I had to lose.
Light a single candle,
For those I could not save.
I failed them in my duty,
I sent them to their grave.
Light a single candle,
For a love that once burned true.
Even if I could get him back,
Would he forgive what I had to do?
Light a single candle,
For faith in friends betrayed.
I know now I should not have left,
But not how I could have stayed.
Light a single candle,
For my battered heart and soul.
I cannot fill these empty spaces.
I left all that made me whole.
Light a single candle,
For I've done nothing but fail.
I hold each pain here in my hand.
Each one a coffin nail.
Light a single candle,
They cannot love me still.
But loneliness on top of grief,
Is too much a bitter pill.
So I ask the wind to tell the birds,
To beg them this for me:
Light a single candle,
On this path I cannot see.
And lead me safely home again,
Where I so need to be.
