A candle burned almost all the way down, short and nearly spent, heavy melted wax pooling and dripping down a thick, heavy, solid candle body. The flame has just gone out — only a single thin, fragile, wavering thread of smoke rises from the wick, with one tiny dim ember still faintly glowing. Strong and heavy where the candle stands, delicate and almost vanishing where the smoke fades. Somber, melancholic, quiet and lonely, a sense of loss and fragility, lots of empty dark space around it. Heavy solid blacks contrasted with a thin dying wisp. tattoo idea