what did the daffodil say to the flame?

a conversation I overheard

D: hello?

F: hello

D: are you the sun?

F: part of her

D: only part?

F: yes. but.. I won’t be me when the wax pools. i’ll be someone else with next light. but you’ll still be you.

D: really? and who am I?

F: perhaps the same.

D: the same?

F: a part of a whole.

D: who is the whole?

F: do you see that window?

D: yes..

F: and that tree? those leaves waving in?

D: yes. that looks like me! kind of. at least the color. not the shape..

F: it’s part of you

D: me?

F: you came from her. come from her.

D: just me? not you?

F: I’m from the sun. you’re from earth. and we’ve ended up in here.

D: where… is here?

F: in this home.

D: will we reach out there? where we came from?

F: no, we won’t.

D: oh.

F: .. ..

D: .. ..

F: that girl? she’s our home

D: her?

F: yes, her.

D: she gives us life? enough of it to stay? what about the sun and earth?

F: she is both.

D: both? but how?

F: she is made from the earth. and she holds the sun. it’s inside her, actually. there, you can see it in her eyes

D: and she wants us?

F: she brought us here

D: why?

F: because of love

D: she loves us?

F: well, she loves beauty. and life and light

D: and what do those things have to do with us?

F: it’s what we provide for her

D: so we’re her earth and sun?

F: and she is ours.

D: .. ..

F: .. ..

D: that’s beautiful

F: isn’t it? even just for a moment

D: just for this bloom

F: just for this light