Candle

she lights up every room she is in

with her gently little voice

i was in Berkhamsted

she in Yorkshire  a good choice

to be so very far away

but her clarion call I heard

also called a cavy and  i thought she was a bird

when i was in Ecuador very far away

on the volcanic slopes the  cavy

spend each joyful day

they run  about all  over

happy little souls

the Andes Mountains

are beautiful

and its there they  live their roles

5000 years BC domesticated, were they

with little ears and short legs

they  are not a pig ok

not from Guinea  either

something they cant ignore

Their teeth are growing all their life

which is why they have to gnaw

its their squeaking sounds

a bit pig like thats a hint i feel

otherwise they are rodents

thats the honest deal.

candle is a lovely name

where there is light there is hope

in the Andes we use a candle

in the darkness we can cope

out across the mountain ranges

a candle can be seen

and family know where we all are

or actually where we have been.

Its a bit like being an ancient man

from stone age times his eyes

seeing a light across the  mountains

just to realise

a candle in the pitch black

is wonderful to see

another name for the   Guinea pig

is commonly “cuyi”