Give it all!

The silence in this room is getting loud again And bricks are just the way we communicate We build these walls with every word we never say Wrapped in skin that curves along the darker coast of human We wear our ghosts like coats we never chose to own But buried there alive along with mother’s terror and brothers honest lies And every promise that we broke before we even tried Give it all — without word or lullaby Give it all — away and don’t surrender me Give it all, like bones beneath a dying tree To the champion of sorrow whose title undefeated until now Who finally lost when you looked at me somehow And kissed the future in such a half-remembered way my love We became the wound we swore we’d never be Like winds that can never truly promise not to tear it all down Still we stand here holding what the wind can’t take Holding on, holding on, not letting go Even when the ground beneath us starts to scream Such a cosmic dance unravelling Two shadows learning how to bleed as one All the while forgetting they cannot be without the sun One match, one candle and one breath One spark was all it took to burn the dark to death Burnt alive and quick like varnish coated old newsprint In the afterglow we finally learned to speak in ash And the blackened cinders rolled aloud and laughed While heaven burned its tongue on what we left behind So gracefully we finally learned to burn alive