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Hold Up A Candle If You Are An Angel

This is a poem from one of my greatest friends, Sabina Carlson. It is very beautiful, inspiring, and affectionate, which is symbolistic of who she is.

Hold up your candle if you are an angel

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Hold up your candle if you are an angel.

Hold up your candle if the light of hope

dances and curls about your spine

like the breath of light

about the wick.

Or blow out your candle if you believe

that when

these flames flicker out

we will forget

the faces we now see before us:

the faces

of the hopeful,

and the memory of the abused.

Hold up your candle

if the people standing along side you

have become your wings,

and that

side by side

we fly

to a better place and time.

hold up your candle if you know that sound does not travel

through air and wires but rather through the chords

of our hearts and that we will never

be able to claim

that we could not hear

a single cry

because a deafening ocean

stood between us.

Hold up your candle if you remember

how the world forgot 800

thousand Rwandans,

hold up your candle if you have a hole

burnt into your heart

by the Shoah, the Great Fire,

the Holocaust

and hold up your candle if you can still see

the smoke

and taste the ashes.

hold up your candle

if you know

that tears

only feed

that fire.

and hold up your candle

if you refuse to let the world

sob itself to sleep, waiting for a wish,

because we did not listen to them,

because we did not burn with them,

because we did not tell them

"I am

going

to save you.

Here,

I am your miracle."

For who

dares to say that miracles are simply

the dusted spines

of Bibles?

Friends, look

at the crying wings you stand

side by side with, listen to the heavenly

psalms of hope and hurt, feel your heart

rise

through the halo above your head

to join with a hundred thousand others

who will heal

this world.

hold up your candle

if you

are an angel.

Angel Are You Candle Up Hold

Beautiful.

Its not flowing with rhyme and rhythm, or at least thats what it appears. But rather feels like a stinging rebuke for those that sit by and chose to do nothing, waiting for someone, or something else to be a hero, be a miracle. Deep and penetrating into ones soul if they let it.

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Moreover, me and Sabina actually do something. We are both members of Amnesty International and we are both busily setting up a non-profit whose objective is sustainable development in Africa.

This poem always, always, gives me motivation. I remember when she read it front of ten thousand people from eleven states in New York. It was a huge Amnesty event that we were both part of.

Angel Are You Candle Up Hold

I too am a member of Amnesty International, though not as active as you are. I don't have time to donate, so I donate what money I can. Love the poem, I printed it off for my wife this morning, she wanted me to tell you it was as deep as it was touching and she herself felt inspired as well. It rare to find a writer who can inspire such desire to do good in the world today. It may have been common once, but not now, keep up the prose.