I Lit A Candle

One evening I was sitting alone thinking about darkness.

After a while, it hit me that darkness isn’t really the lights being turned off. Darkness is the absence of light.

We spend so much of our lives surrounding ourselves with noise, distractions, comforts, and pretty things—trying to keep the darkness away. But sometimes those very things become hollow shells, and the emptiness behind them starts bleeding through the cracks.

Then comes the strange realization:
even the smallest flame can push back true darkness.

Not by force.
Not by volume.
Just by existing.

When we finally open our hearts and minds, that little flame begins to grow. What once looked small becomes something greater than the night around us.

A single candle can become brighter than the sky above.

And if we let it, that light will guide us even down the darkest roads

[Verse 1]
This darkness isn’t lights gone out,
It’s lights that never cease.
A world that shouts in neon glow
Till I forget what silence means.
My eyes are open, still I’m blind,
All lit—yet nothing’s clear.
I walk a road of brighter signs
But miss the path beneath my feet.

[Verse 2]
My heart’s a furnished empty room,
A hollow dressed in gold.
I learned to live on noise and speed,
Mistaking bright for whole.
I searched for truth in volume’s roar,
In certainty and control.
But You were waiting in the hush,
Where one small flame could hold.

[Chorus]
So I lit a candle—
Not to banish dark, but name it.
Not to prove my faith—
But finally to claim it.
Just one small flame—
And everything began to change.

[Verse 3]
You were there behind the glare,
Closer than the walls.
Steadier than breath in me
When all my courage falls.
The dark did not depart that night,
It did not lose its fight—
But it lost its claim upon my soul
When truth replaced the light.

[Bridge]
Teach me how to tend this wick
When louder lights appear.
Teach me how to trust the glow
That draws Your presence near.
Not every fire is holy flame,
Not every bright is right—
So guard my eyes and guard my heart
To walk by truth, not sight.

[Final Chorus]
So I lit a candle—
Not to banish dark, but name it.
Not to prove my faith—
But finally to claim it.

[Outro]
You were here the whole time.
The room was never empty.
I was only waiting…
To see.

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