Number Candle

When I was still very young about six years old maybe, when it's time for my birthday, my parents would give me my birthday cake with a number candle, a candle that is shaped like a number with red borders and white fill. Sometime I wondered and asked my mother why that candle will always add by one every time it's my birthday, and she said as I could remember that birthdays are special days where a person gets older and have to add one when it is celebrated and assured me it is normal for all people everywhere. Today, I have to add one candle again, and I'm sure I'm getting older; not those numbered candles but the candles that is lit inside my heart.