Beyond the Passage of Embers

Take me home, flame on the floor

Tell them that I'm home, light on the door

Dancing shadows of me

Take me home, fire

Roof, open wide

Eyes to the stars, the sky

Attic, come down

Rest on the ground alight

My empty hand an eclipse

No need to wake again

I’ll never leave

Swallow each thought I am

Oubliette, forget me, down in the cellar

Dirge sung in embers to the cracking of dry bones

Risе from these ashen walls our cеnser

Washed out with the flame

I will be found in the morning

And no one will know who I am

Mind, rise with the smoke

I'm asking for forgiveness

I'm being selfish again

But what else do I know?

As a curling silhouette

I can finally let go

I can finally let go

I have made my return

To the place of my earliest memory

The consequences of my absence are clear

This place I once called home has gone from me

Were it not for my existence

And the remnants of my frail memory

This tired world of mine would be lost

Though

Everything is different

The animals don’t come here anymore

The ground has moved

And the arms of the earth have fallen

The windows peering through the overgrowth

Seem to face a different direction now

Even the cicadas sound different

I cannot fathom how

But everything has changed

This is not my home