For the Night

Your healing words bring misery,
throw a match unto the pyre
Your comfort brings confusion,
yet it sets my soul afire
Your voice calls out to me,
it plays me like a lyre
I’m yearning for every word,
burning with desire

I spend my nights a ghost with you,
begging for a fight
I want to cleave my soul in two,
so I can set things right
I yearn inside to call out to you,
to set my heart alight
You heard me somewhere deep inside,
stayed with me for the night

A shining crackling gemstone,
set in fires red in hue
A soul emerges from the ashes,
burnt and then renewed
A tiny flame that sparks an ember,
is the voice that comes from two
Nights spent burning to ashes,
with the ghosts of me and you