🖤🥀 Requiescat (Old Masters Reinterpreted)

Words Forged By Rikki Morningstar Inspired By Oscar Wildes Requiescat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Entry for the [OLD MASTERS REINTERPRETED] event by @lutztig25 Eventplaylist: https://suno.com/playlist/37101fff-3234-4a68-838a-caf8f1b9ab4b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro – whispered | piano + distant violin] “Tread lightly… she is near…” — [soft violin harmonic] — “Under the snow…” [Verse 1] The room still breathes her fading name Like dying candles after rain Dust and roses haunt the air And every silence keeps her there — [low cello enters softly] — I still reach toward empty space As if the dark could hold her face But time moves cold through every wall And never waits for grief at all [Pre-Chorus] “Her hair was like the rustling corn…” — [violin trembles gently] — And mine still shines with what is gone [Chorus] “Tread lightly, she is near… — [full strings swell] — I feel her Beauty and Immortality in every tear “Under the snow…” beneath the stone The earth may keep her… not alone And every dream still speaks her breath Like love refusing even death [Verse 2 – closer to Wilde] “Her robe was Black as maytime bud…” Soft as moonlight touched with blood “She was made of ivory…” A fragile ache inside of me — [cello heartbeat pulse] — No one sang, no heavens cried The stars looked down and turned aside Yet in the quiet of the night Her memory still burns alive [Pre-Chorus] “Peace, Peace, she cannot hear…” — [violin rises slowly] — But I still speak as if she’s here [Chorus] “Tread lightly, she is near…” Her shadow lingers crystal clear “Under the snow…” her beauty sleeps Inside the wound the silence keeps And though the grave has closed above It cannot bury what I love [Bridge – intimate, broken] I thought that grief would fade with time Like fading echoes from a rhyme But sorrow grows where beauty stays And follows me through all my days — [solo violin crying tone] — Sometimes I swear I hear her voice Between the wind and candle noise [Break – whispered] “Sweet Christ, if I am bold enough…” — [single piano note] — Forgive the hands that still reach back… [Final Chorus – cinematic] “Tread lightly, she is near…” — [full strings] — More alive with every year “Under the snow…” beneath the pain Some souls are never lost to rain And if the world forgets her name My heart… will whisper it the same [Outro – fading] “Peace, Peace…” — [violin fading into silence] — “…she cannot hear.”