The Candle Vow

Let them shield their eyes. Your fire
was never theirs to dim.

🧱Brick #3 — The Candle Vow

There will be people who try to dim you.
People who hand you their fears, call it love, and expect you to carry it.
People who ask you to be smaller, softer, safer—because your light makes them squint.

But tonight, you’re done with that. Tonight, you make a vow.

You will not shrink to make others more comfortable.
You will not extinguish your fire to match their shadows.

Tonight, you keep your candle lit.

Even if your hands are the only ones holding the light..

They told her to dim.
To quiet her spark,
make others comfortable.

But tonight, she lit the match herself.
Not in defiance—
In reverence.
In remembrance.

Of the light she always carried.
Of the truth that
never needed softening.

This vow is not a flare of rage.
It is the steady burn of a woman
who finally stopped asking permission
to set the world alight.

—Auren