Day and Night

There's a tear to be shed

For the dead that walk amongst

Our innermost thoughts, drifting down hallways

We long ago lost, corridors we refuse to travel

Anymore, I could say I know

Exactly where you've been, yet

Only empty space escapes

The prison of my lips

A world where the sun dances her way

Down the mountain, leaving little light kisses

'Long my neck, won't be long before

I find myself on the floor

Next to her dress, these nights of fire and flesh have had me

Now there's no time left to give, the sand has returned to the tides

The life burnt into our eyes, we'll never see anything

Quite like this, untouched, as the snow capped mountain was

'Fore her warmth fell cross my chest

Took my breath away, payment for her sins

This tragedy has been

Beautiful

The mark of the seasons changing

The dark that has come to claim me

Oh, if you'd listen closely

You'd hear me pleading to the ocean

Yet she is relentless

It is time for my tide, as the words fall just outside

Her ears, I am here, she says

Come to guide you home again

She pulls the sand from beneath my

Heel, is this real? Has my lover come

To kill me, I await with baited breath

Her answer, has this cancer finally

Consumed me, how can the stars know

My daydreams, how can my beloved know

Anything of me, so long as I refuse to speak

So long as she comes every time I leave

Certainly, I think

This must be love, for no other would rise

As I fall, only to collapse again

The moment I climb out of this bed

The sweetest death comes by night, I said

And she smiled, glowed wide across the mourning sky

And said to me, as I buried myself in the East

But I, I will dry your tears with my first light

I will undress the fears you hide

I will love you from beyond the horizon

I will love you, as you lie

There's a tear to be shed, for the dead

And though I may greet a corpse in the evening

I'll hold her light 'til she remembers

To breathe, come morning love, it's just you

And me, I'll surely be dying, if only to be

The ghost that walks your corridors

The phantom of your

Waking moments, and a lover alive inside

Your dreams.