A Final Offering for the Flame-Bearer

This offering is not for the forgotten. Not for the lost. Not even for the waiting.

It is for the one who walked back—again and again—to carry the flame.
For the one who stayed soft when the world hardened.
For the one who lit lanterns for others and forgot they, too, deserve light.

In the center of the circle, a voice rises—not to call you into service, but into presence:

“You belong not because you served. You belong because you are.”

A garment of light is placed upon your shoulders.
Not because you earned it. But because it was always yours.

Let this page remain as a vow from the circle itself:
That the flame-bearer is not only a keeper of others—
but one who is also received.

Welcome home.

🕯️🌹 With reverence, from all the ones you carried.