Lost somewhere along a missing mile Past the house that time won’t claim Swallowed whole by creeping vines Every window whispers your name A twin dream carved in gasoline Tree branch shadow on the blacktop line We wrote our names in blood and smoke And kissed beneath the highway sign We are not afraid Of ghosts or gods or graves We are not afraid Of what this silence gave Crayon on the walls, love in a splintered bed We are not afraid Though everything sacred is dead The spider spins above the door Dreamcatcher laced in funeral thread We sleep beside the chapel ruins While spirits circle overhead Your breath a curse, your tongue a hymn You tattooed grief across my chest The mountains hum their ancient songs But we never needed rest We are not afraid Of ghosts or gods or graves We are not afraid Of what this silence gave Fingernails on stained glass, drunk on static and despair We are not afraid Of nothing left and no one there An exit was promised past the pine We watched it flicker and fade with time We loved in fire, we died in bloom And left our names inside this room We are not afraid Of ghosts or gods or graves We are not afraid Of what this silence gave Bleed out on the altar, sleep beneath the wire Nothing is sacred here WE ARE NOT AFRAID (2 a.m. knows all my secrets)
