Veil of Dusk

(ahhhh) I wear the evening like a bruise on my skin

Every step home feels heavier within The rooms I knew keep changing

their face I speak my name and hear it drift from its

place The glass in the window holds a colder sky I search

for a reason and let it pass by If I let the

night come closer Will it name what I became

There is a fire under silence There is mercy in the pain

I am the weight beneath the water I am the word I

could not say Hold me inside this hollow thunder Till the dark

can wash me clean again I am the fault line slowly turning

I am the door that will not break Stay with me through

the deepest hour Till my heart remembers how to wake The mirror

gives back someone tired and thin

A map full of roads that I never began I kept my

faith in a rusted machine

Still it went quiet when I leaned in Now every scar has

a low steady tone Like distant iron calling me home Under the

stone of my chest Something alive still moves Slow as a tide

through

wreckage Certain as old truth I am

the weight

beneath the water I am the

word I could not say Hold me inside this hollow thunder Till

the dark can wash me clean again I am the fault line

slowly turning I am the door that will not break Stay with

me through the deepest hour Till my heart remembers how to wake

(ahhhh) Let it fade through me