Stained Flame Requiem

Under ember skies, we wander

Charred footprints trace our sorrow

Whispers curl in copper shadows

Where the dying sparks borrow tomorrow

All the light we held so fierce

Now drips like molten glass

Sing the stained flame requiem

Ashes drift through dusty hymns

I’ll cradle every flicker lost

In the echo of what’s been

Sing the stained flame requiem

Until the night dissolves in wind

Veins of violet in the cinder

Heartbeat slows beneath the glow

Embers dance on broken embankments

Calling truths, we feared to know

Every scar a constellation

Painted bright upon the dark

Sing the stained flame requiem

Ashes drift through dusty hymns

I’ll cradle every flicker lost

In the echo of what’s been

Sing the stained flame requiem

Until the night dissolves in wind

Let the fire’s breath remember

All the fire’s heat reclaim

In the ruin and the splinter

Rises purpose from the flame

Sing the stained flame requiem

Ashes drift through dusty hymns

I’ll cradle every flicker lost

In the echo of what’s been

Under ember skies, we linger

Bearing light in charred hands

A requiem for every ember

That reshaped who we are