Sand and Snow - Light This City

Every city is a ghost town where I see remnants of us

That will never fade because they’ll never see the light

The streets remember our footprints

Maps made in sand and snow

Where we walked side by side

The things we told each other

Piece by piece

As it comes back now

Revisiting

I stopped searching for our missing ending

There are no dry winds carrying torn pages down abandoned roads

Fluttering

Caught on telephone poles

Waiting to be found and read aloud

Even if I alone returned to those streets

Deceased

I’d be choked by the ashes of long combusted paper dreams

You are being immortalized as I speak

Not just in words

But a reality I live in my sleep

Last night I dreamt you followed me

I can feel you always close

Sometimes a day ahead

Or two behind

Hunting down a similar night

Different from the next

I can still hear your voice in air currents you’ve since left and I’ve just

found

I told you to never try and find me

But how can I ask memories to leave

They just come and go as they please

And even if I wrote a thousand songs

No one will ever know what you’ve done to me

They’ll hear it echoing

Or see the delicate skin shed from a body still evolving

Ghosts of emotions lost and unable to give up

A carcass of a parasite that left one final scar before being cast from it’s

host

We’re not bound by ties

But inescapably intertwined in eachother’s lives

Your love was glass cut like a diamond

But I have discovered a truer fortune

I take pity on your greed

You will never regain wealth lost in me

And even as I immortalize you with my words

I know you don’t deserve this