Embers

We are ashes on the ground
No phoenix will rise
This time around
(We are depleted, we are unable)
To reinvent ourselves, to pretend
Like we weren't buried with our youth
(And find solace in that truth)

An ember of days long lost
Slowly dimming in the frost

We are dust and distant lights
Playing tricks on our own minds
(The sun is held within a breath
And night becomes you)
But as the stars recede
And our wounds resume to bleed
We're at a loss for words
And all the lines are blurred

An ember of days long lost
Slowly dimming in the frost

We fan the fires of
(A long-forgotten love)
Embers dance and die
Above the funeral pyre

We are ashes on the ground
We were buried with our youth
(Find solace in that truth)
The embers of days long lost
Dead and dying in the frost