Defeated Sky

It was a night so bright it hurt to see
As if the shadows had learned how to burn
I laid my forehead in the lap of your absence
And felt time bleeding out in slow returns

A dark tide rising through the pillars of my soul
While the tired sky leaned down
Toward the void below

And everything we were
Began to blur like rain on glass

Maybe our love was an unfinished ritual
A heartbeat spoken
Far too late
A flame that chose the beauty of sacrifice
Instead of learning how
To stay

Now every dusk still tastes like you
Cold and endless
Soft and blue

Some things never really die
They just learn how to hide
In the shadows

There was a garden where winter learned to pray
Roses of ash and silver grew

Beneath their roots slept broken promises
Still sweet with all the words we never knew

I opened my eyes to find the morning
But only found your silences
Falling one by one
From a defeated sky

And all the light we touched
Turned distant as a dream

Maybe our love was an unfinished ritual
A heartbeat spoken
Far too late
A flame that chose the beauty of sacrifice
Instead of learning how
To stay

Now every dusk still tastes like you
Cold and endless
Soft and blue

Some things never really die
They just learn how to hide in the shadows

Every light must know its night
Every breath returns to dust
And eternity begins somewhere
When two lost souls dissolve in us

So I still feel your shape beside me
Where the fading colors fall
Because not everything that leaves us
Ever leaves at all