Ashes into Light

The sky was burning slow tonight

The moon hid tears behind her light

You whispered low, I felt you fade

Through every wound that love had made

My soul was smoke, a shadow’s hymn

Your ghost still breathing under skin

If heaven’s real, it smells like rain

And speaks in tongues that call my name

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I was lost in your shadow

Now I burn through the echo

Every prayer that I ever spoke

Turns to flame, turns to smoke

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Heaven in smoke, I see you again

Your ghost in the storm, your hand in the wind

But I rise in light, I let you go

And bloom where the dark won’t grow

Heaven in smoke, I breathe you in

Then exhale your name into the wind

If love was a curse, I wore it thin

Now I rise, I rise again

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Reflections fall like silver rain

Your voice dissolves but still remains

The sea repeats our quiet song

But I’ve been breaking all along

You left your fire in my chest

It burns the night, it knows no rest

I’d trade the stars to touch that night

Where grief became my guiding light

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Through the static, I still hear your voice

In the thunder, I still make my choice

To stay in the dark or rise from the pain

I choose the light — I choose the flame

(whispered)

The night is bleeding silver tears

But I’m not afraid, I’m finally clear

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Heaven in smoke, I see you again

But I rise in light, unbroken, unbent

Every scar that burned now glows within

I’m the dawn you were meant to begin

Rise in light, let the silence go

Every wound I’ve healed starts to glow

You were the night that I broke through

Now I shine — but I still see you

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(whispered)

The sky remembers

But I rise in light