Amber Blaze

There’s a ghost in the tide tonight,

Whispering soft through the amber light.

Your name drips slow from the edge of the sky,

Like smoke that never learned goodbye.

The sea remembers what I’ve lost,

Every shimmer, every cost.

You said love was just a phase —

Now I drown inside that haze.

⸻

Every wound turned into gold,

Every silence taking hold.

I rise — I rise —

From the ashes of your eyes.

⸻

I bleed in amber veins,

Underneath this borrowed flame.

You said love was just decay,

But I still taste your name.

Now I breathe — now I see —

I’m the blaze you couldn’t keep.

In the fire, I’m set free —

In the blaze of me.

⸻

I walk where we used to stand,

Barefoot ghosts in borrowed sand.

The night bends down to touch my hair,

But you’re the only warmth not there.

The moon looks on, a witness still,

To every promise, every thrill.

But I’m not what you left behind —

I’m the storm you couldn’t find.

⸻

The sky burns slow — it remembers you.

Every light I chase turns the same hue.

Even when I dream, I dream in flame —

But now that fire knows my name.

(ethereal choir builds — heartbeat percussion joins)

Let the waves crash, I will not drown,

Crown of heat, I wear it proud.

My heart was glass — now it resounds,

A thunder rising from the ground.

⸻

I bleed in amber veins,

But I burn brighter through the pain.

Every glow becomes my name —

Every tide, a fierce refrain.

I was ghost, now I am free —

I am flame, eternally.

You can’t cage what learns to be —

The blaze of me.

⸻

(whispered)

There’s a ghost in the tide tonight…

But she looks a lot like me.