Smoke and Ash

Door locked

Bass low

Don’t ask You

know

Black glass, rain trails,

top floor view I don’t say much,

but the walls know you Smoke curls slow where the light can’t

land

Gold on my wrist,

ash on my hands I learned fake love in a velvet room

Everybody smiles when they need something from you

Phone face down, no witness,

no spark Just blue unread prayers glowing in the dark I keep

my sins in a clean black coat Talk real soft when the

blade gets close You wanted my calm,

not the war underneath Now my silence got teeth I don’t break

loud

I cave in deep

Say

one truth

Then I don’t sleep

I go quiet

That’s when it hurts

I stay cold

That’s how it burns

No more pleading No more words

I go

quiet That’s when it hurts

Moonlight stuck to the marble stairs Your perfume still lives in the

elevator air I gave too much to a locked-room ghost Now I

toast to the things I miss the most

Private pain with a public face I made heartbreak look like taste

Incense smoke in a rented suite Praying to a god that don’t

answer me You called it distance,

I called it survival Love turned sharp when it went viral I

don’t chase truth when the truth runs cheap

I let it rot beneath the beat

I don’t break loud

I cave in deep Bite my prayer Till the altar bleeds This

is the part where the drums fall out

This is the room I don’t talk about

One glass crack One long breath One last lie

I never left

Choir in the smoke

808 in my ribs Guilt in the walls Static on my lips

Ashes rise Lights go black If the roof comes down I won’t

crawl back

I go quiet

That’s when it hurts I stay cold That’s how it burns I

go quiet

That’s when it hurts I stay cold That’s how it burns Door

locked

Bass low

No prayer Just smoke