Until and Maybe Even After

Don’t care too much what you mean.
If you’re the part expressing
Mind into the world, you won’t

Be the source of the meaning
Anyway. You made the thing.
However well or poorly

Made, it can only invite
Others to bring their meanings
To throw some glow out of it.

Good for you, you made a lamp.
It’s not lighting anything
Until or maybe even after

Someone else brings the candle,
Or bulb and wire, kerosene—
Whatever they’ve got burning.