Undone

 My eyes hold the Western sun 

Not the fire-just the ending

When everything has come undone 

Gold bleeding into dust 

After descending shades of rust

Like a promise never mending

You said “forever” in the dusk 

Like it wasn’t already leaving

Like the dark don’t follow light 

Like I wouldn’t keep believing 

Now I’m walking into silence 

Where the sky don’t say my name 

Where the earth don’t call it love 

Just burns it down all the same 

You were a storm without a center 

I was water you outrun 

Now I’m blooming in the desert 

Underneath this dying sun 

You lit me up like something sacred 

The disappeared without a trace 

Left your echoes in my body 

Like a ghost without a face 

But the wind out here is honest 

It won’t beg and it won’t stay 

It just carves away the past 

‘Til there’s nothing left to say 

So I’m breathing in the silence 

Letting heat undo my bones 

Learning love without a witness 

Learning I’m better off alone

You were lightning without ground 

I was reaching for the rain 

Now I’m blooming in the desert

Calling nothing by your name 

The desert never promised me

Anything but truth-

What survives 

Does so in silence 

Now the sky spills out its ending 

And I let it come undone 

I don’t call it love or loss-

Just the setting of the sun 

And I bloom without you 

Slow, fragrant, wild and true 

Like the earth that never holds onto 

Anything it ever grew. 

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