It was a night so bright it hurt to see As if the shadows had learned how to burn I laid my forehead in the lap of your absence And felt time bleeding out in slow returns A dark tide rising through the pillars of my soul While the tired sky leaned down Toward the void below And everything we were Began to blur like rain on glass Maybe our love was an unfinished ritual A heartbeat spoken Far too late A flame that chose the beauty of sacrifice Instead of learning how To stay Now every dusk still tastes like you Cold and endless Soft and blue Some things never really die They just learn how to hide In the shadows There was a garden where winter learned to pray Roses of ash and silver grew Beneath their roots slept broken promises Still sweet with all the words we never knew I opened my eyes to find the morning But only found your silences Falling one by one From a defeated sky And all the light we touched Turned distant as a dream Maybe our love was an unfinished ritual A heartbeat spoken Far too late A flame that chose the beauty of sacrifice Instead of learning how To stay Now every dusk still tastes like you Cold and endless Soft and blue Some things never really die They just learn how to hide in the shadows Every light must know its night Every breath returns to dust And eternity begins somewhere When two lost souls dissolve in us So I still feel your shape beside me Where the fading colors fall Because not everything that leaves us Ever leaves at all