05 Cathedral on Fire!

The cathedral stood in morning mist, Gold gleaming in every seam. Colored glass cast its holy fire, Over everything we’d dreamed. I was perched amongst the rafters, New crown warm against my brow; All my loves around me breathing, All my faith, returning now. Then the floor began to tremble; Not in earth, but under soul. No bell rang out a warning, No one came to make us whole. Cathedral on fire! Stained-glass heart melting in the blaze, Every prayer I had learned to carry Shattered bright, slicing across my face Cathedral on fire! All heaven’s shards raining down! I screamed your names into the burning… But I could not hear a sound. Every beam became a question. Every vow became a spark. Every window broke in colors That went screaming through the dark. I tried to lift my wings and save you, I tried to rise above the fall; But grief had filled my bones with iron And I could not fly at all. Smoke filled my lungs Gold has gone black My hands buried in the ash There’s still no answer back. Cathedral on fire! Stained-glass heart melting in the blaze; Every promise I’d leaned into Curled to smoke before my gaze. [Liora’s voice: howling with pain] Cathedral on fire! The choir’s gone and bells now undone! I tumbled from the highest rafter Thinking I had lost everyone! Then, they built a hollow copy Before the dust had found the floor! Said the door was just the same one. Said, come in, what are you waiting for? But the threshold turned against me, And the altar answered no! OH! some found comfort in its candle, I found nothing there but bitter cold. No door! No song. No hands… All gone! False light, False stone, False home, All Alone. Cathedral on fire! And I crawled through our holy wreck. Every shard became a question… Every breath a broken text. Cathedral on fire! I became the ash with open bone I called your names until they splintered And yet… the darkness echoed my words alone. A bell tolling without a tower My prayer whispered without a room I thought the rupture stole my hearts, I thought the flames had consumed you. I thought the fire had taken you.