There are very few who can open a poem as well as you can. A flickering candle in a raincloud covered world - Deep, very deep, in its beauty and its message. Most impressive, and that's just the first few lines; the other three stanzas are equally as good. The second one, how the world can be well interpreted with metaphors from an empty cafe - very true (the empty cafe possibly being one of them). I really liked these lines from the third stanza - "how many are doomed To be misled and how many will Simply not look." Yeah, personally I grew tired of being misled, so I simply just stopped looking... For better, for worse. The end stanza says it perfectly: we all have eyes and hearts, but some of us put them to better use than others... Who's really to judge what is or is not enough? Let's just hope it isn't me. ;) A most superb piece all a round; outstanding work.

The trouble is how tiring it can all be to see what we can and feel what we can. So we turn on and off at the cues we have set for ourselves. I love this. It reminds me of a cafe I used to work at right around the mid-afternoon lull. Always seemed to lead to these sorts of thoughts.