In dreams

You show me songs that sing of sirens long gone

You carry me into sleep, I sing back

Softly, sadly, steadily

Steel like

The cage surrounding the heart

In dreams

You show me signs that say you love me

You brush my hair back, i touch your chin

Rough like 

The violence that takes us in the dark

Some nights 

You show me softness that sticks around

You reach for me blind, brush reckless tears away

With steady fingers

Quiet like

The words that fail us during the bad part

Some nights

You show me rage that floods the room

You spit words that you mean, I swallow words that i don't

Red like

The blood that burns us both, leaves seductive scars

In dreams

I can dance again

I can scream and be heard

I can be carried home to you

I can stray and be returned

In dreams

Your songs have words

Your tears run empty

Your fingers strum new chords

Your fire doesn’t always come with the flood

Every night

You show me life recolored

The other shoe drops

Every night, the tower breaks

The dust goes unsettled

The winds rage and the shards don’t hit their mark

Every night we remember the first night

Every night fierce craving fixes fury

Until the night we miss the first night too much

Until the night nostalgia turns to numbness 

Turns to defeat and calloused hands, no longer reaching because they can’t feel their mark

In dreams

I still scream for you in my glass box

Pound an indestructible wall

Turn to ash and rubble as I sing that same song

The song that sings of sirens long gone

That sings of the first night defeating the last

That sings of the blood that still burns

That sings me to sleep, sings you to sleep

Separately and silently

As the scars sing back in our hearts