LAMENT REPRISE (Remastered)

I lit the candles for the names I couldn't keep Whispers curling upward like a funeral choir I kneel before the ashes where the shadows sleep And pray the silence doesn’t call me by your fire This room remembers everything you failed to say Your breath still hangs like frost on shattered bone I trace the sigils grief has carved into my day A ritual reminding me I grieve alone Lament for the lost, for the love I couldn’t save Lament for the ghost you became inside my grave Lament for the pulse that the dark could not behave Lament for the cost of the heart you couldn’t brave I swear I hear your voice in the hiss of the wick, a trembling echo, a half-formed wish, I choke on the hymns that never learned to heal, and scream your name until the room finally feels. Lament for the lost, for the love I couldn’t save Lament for the ghost you became inside my grave Lament for the pulse that the dark could not behave Lament for the cost of the heart you couldn’t brave