The Gentle ~ light

A Candle in this image next to the GREAT ANTHONY of Padua ~
San Secondo D'asti Roman Catholic Church Guasti, California

There is a GENTLE kindness tenderly present ~
and her GAZE is so sweet a sound and so tender a kindness ~
Are we eternal in a perspective in which a WORD of gentle embrace is distant?
or the distance gently distant?
My former being is distant and my present being is so KIND and NEW~
and the NEW came from a distant old
in which the old brought a distance ~
WHERE are you?
I ask ~
WHERE?