Bird Of Fire I remember you like smoke in blue light like you never left never broke never disappeared Still there in the hall in the glass in the breath after midnight I remember all of it the color of your silence the grace in your ruin the fire without noise I wanted to be faithful not halfway not in fragments not in fear I wanted my life bent toward you my thoughts my nerve my restless inner sky Everything in me leaning leaning only to you So fly bird of fire Our time still burns in me Let life end I have no fear now What we were was love renewed in flame You were the rock inside the wave the stillness inside the question You had that strange bright courage that impossible yes that lifted the poison out of my blood You broke the spell of the lesser things the thin things the cruel things Not everything stays not everything true remains in the hand Nothing holy keeps its shape forever But you you were the elixir the soft relief the sweet anesthesia My cure my fever my beautiful drug of light
