You have lighted me and now you look into my light.
I hope, it brings you joy.
Actually, I myself am enjoying my burning.
If I didn’t burn,
I’d be in a carton along with others,
who also were not burning.
But in a carton we do not make sense.
It’s just the same with you HUmans:
Either you stay with yourselves and you’re safe,
then you will be just like the candles in a carton.
Or you give light and warmth, then you’ll make sense!
People will be happy you’re around.
You won’t be here for nothing.
But you have to give something from yourSelf.
First of all from your liveliness:
from your joy, your heartiness, your fidelity,
from your laughter, your sadness, your fears,
from your yearnings,
from all, that is you and within.
Do not fear to grow shorter.
That’s only on the outside -
on the inside you grow brighter all the time…