Water Lanterns

Strike the match of faith’s flame

Close your eyes, make a wish

Bound in hope, floats a dream

As your spark sails adrift

To their place, ever aft’

With your lantern alight

Set to sail on their rafts —

Kiss the onyx of night

Where, slowly, they shrink

In the vast waters, dark

Black swallows its drink

From the shore where you part

Water’s concouse, the sky

The lantern, your star

Twinkling lights

Each drifts to afar

A piece of your heart

Cascades on the sea

As it gently departs

Toward its destiny