This is me, realising you are the kingdom that I do not run. This is you, the secrets we hold, the tales that we have spun. This is us, the stars in our eyes, the leaves in our hair, the arguments and the adventures and everything that we may dare. To not risk is not to live, they tell us; yet to risk is danger without caring enough first. We wade into the sea, the waves threaten to overcome, yet two holding hands is greater than the sum of only one.
These are two candles, whose lights have gone out. Cold and useless no matter how strongly they stand, how stout. But strike a match and let them share a flame; the room is brighter and warmer, and our hearts the same.
This moment, this time, lasts not forever, shall fly like winged doves. This is sacred, as though blessed by the Heavens above. This is love.
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Copyright © 2011 Kenny Mah Ying Fye. Photograph by Kenny Mah.
Kenny Mah believes in the good in people. He has been blogging for over ten years. No, his hands aren't tired. Yet.
A candle for love and a smile for the old year, and the night draws all memories into being. Love and light. Peace in the dark. Old hopes, new hopes, dreams that come into being and stay, suspended between waking and sleep.
Like spring, the new year arrives with not so much a bang, as a gentle, quiet nudge – like a tender green shoot, waiting to be coaxed into being.
Happy new year, my dear. This year, let’s make it count.
Happy new year my dear friend :)
I feel that candles whose light have gone out are lovely things because they have silently & softly given themselves away. Unselfishly, they grow small. That, to me, is love.
Happy New Year, my friend.
*HUGS*
@Spindle Girl: Such beautiful descriptions, dear, such beautiful thoughts. And perhaps that is another day we ought to be welcoming this fresh year into our lives – with thoughts of beauty and grace, that we may be able to carry ourselves through whatever vagaries that may come with our heads held up high, our smiles crossing from ear to ear, and and the stars in our eyes.
Let’s coax our little 2011 into being, this tender green shoot, so full of promise.
Happy New Year, my friend. This year, we’ll make it count.
@Nisa: Happy New Year, gorgeous. Thanks for having tea with me on the last day of a very good year. Love ya!
@jemima: And, so it is. That, too, is love. Unconditional love. May we find more of this… in ourselves this year.
Happy New Year, dear. *HUGS*
happy new year to u and devil and looking forward to see more of travel adventures and more spicy posts ala Sir Phileas Fogg
@vimesh: Oh dear, would that make me Phileas Fogg and Devil my feisty Passepartout? Methinks he’s not gonna like that role assignment… Hahaha…
Happy New Year to you, my friend. May this fresh beginning hold nothing but the very best for you!
Happy New Year both you Sexy people! XOXO
@ciki: Happy New Year to you and your hubby too, dear! No way we’d ever be sexier than you and Josen lah… Hehe.
*hugs*
May your life be filled with warmth and love. Happy new year! :)
@J the chocoholic: Thank you, my dear. May yours be filled with warmth and love too, and many delicious chocolates! Hehe.
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you and your loved one! Extremely well-written piece of work! Love it! :)
@iamthewitch: Happy New Year to you and your loved ones too! And many thanks for dropping by and reading this post – appreciate it muchly!
Happy New Year Kenny. And to your beloved Devil too, of course.
Loved your last post of last year, though I didn’t leave you any comments. End-of-year-rush caught up with me.
Love your first post of the new year. It beckons many great things to come.
@Michelle: Happy New Year, dear! I’ve got a good feeling about great things to come. 2011 feels like a Year of Change, of Motion, of Taking Charge, you know what I mean?
2011 definitely has an air to it. It’s a new decade, after all.
Year of Taking Charge. I like that. I’m gonna make it my motto. =)
Oh, and I forgot.
*Big Hug* for a great year ahead.
@Michelle: Oh heck, I think I’m gonna make that my motto too, haha.
*BIG HUGS for an INCREDIBLE 2011*
What a sweet way to start the year. Have a lovely one ahead with tr Devil.
@alilfatmonkey: Happy New Year, to both you & McCutie, bro! Love you two to bits! Hehe.
gosh, i looked at your photo before i read your words, and i thought, what strange-looking cupcakes. guess i’ve just gotten too used to seeing food pics in your entries lately :D
candles remind me of my time as a church-going catholic (st francis xavier’s church was my parish back in malacca). the smell of incense. the long sermons. the restlessness i felt at the obligation of having to attend. so yeah, cupcakes would evoke more positive emotions in me, heheh…
@Sean: Well, that probably means I’ve been eating a tad too much of late, if you’re getting used to seeing food pics in my entries lately.
I blame the season – all the celebrations and eating-a-thons. Heh.
Strange, but as a non-church-going non-Catholic, I’d have enjoyed the candles and the incense and the long sermons more than cupcakes, which are far too sweet and creamy for my tastes. Hehe.
Such a LOVELY post to kick-start the new year and so apt, too! Happy New Year to you & Devil!
(LOL @ Sean’s comment abt seeing those candles as cupcakes!)
@Pureglutton: Happy New Year to you too, dear!
(Oh dear, are we gonna get candle cum cupcake jokes for the rest of 2011 now? Eeks.)
yup, need not afraid of the rough seas and the stormy weathers when 2 hearts becomes 1..
@lena: Aye, the seas will always have its rough turns and the weather may get stormy, but to have love and to love, two can weather any storm, so filled with hope & joy & strength are two…
Kenny! :)
Been a while … Been busy, I’m sorry. I love the simplicity and clean lines of your photo! A moment frozen in time, forever etched in our memories, like a tattoo, forever emblazoned into our skin (well, I have enough to know ;) ) your little post conveys more in its meaning than actual words used. ;)
Thanks and have a blasting 2011 filled with peace, happiness, joy, health, wealth and success!
Cheers!
Ken.
@Kenneth: Hey Ken!!
Yeah, it’s been awhile. Glad to see ya around again. As for clean lines and simplicity, let’s see if I can keep this up in 2011 – sure hope so!
Small is beautiful, no? (refers to size/length of my little post, heh.)
Have a very, very, fantastic new year, mate! Cheers!
But truly, despite the candles being unlit and cold, yet stout, within them is the innate ability for warmth and love, a parallel example we can draw to our fellow human beings, yes? ;) especially the ones with the cold exteriors … ;) heh heh
@Kenneth: That is a mighty fine example, my friend. Plus, we all have our bad days (cue the cold exteriors) but we can’t have them forever, right?
It’s in believing in not just the good, but the best, in others that is what I find to be love.
Happy new year Kenny! Heres to a new year thats filled with love, hope, beauty and laughs! x
@Paprika: Happy New Year, dear! Here’s to the Year of the Ravenous Rabbit! Woo-hoo!