I created a work of art as a gift for my sister on her twentieth birthday. I painted 20 different candlesticks to represent each year of her life. I integrated a poem within the blank spaces. This masterpiece was a symbol of the gift of her two decades alive. One of the candles is her body. Each of her hands are the candle holders. The painting is truly the perfect gift to symbolize the celebration of life itself. I gave her the painting and read the poem aloud, she melted like one of the candles in it.  That was the last time I saw my sister. She died the next day. God I miss her. Yet her light won’t go away. At her funeral, I read the poem within the painting a second time. A poem created in honor of her life ended up being a part of her death too. We are the light. We shine bright. Like a candle in the wind her spirit is free. Dancing in the sky of eternity. My sweet shimmering sister, your spirit sings “let it burn, I’ll never leave”