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