Lilies

The sky wears its grief in gray robes
Raindrops stitch the earth in cold prose
Every breath feels like borrowed time
Like a page torn from someone else's rhyme

Oh falling petals
You dance so slow
You’re the secrets the seasons will never show
With every drift
With every glide
I feel you sink where I used to hide

The wind carries stories it can’t explain
Soft as silk
Yet heavy as chain
The ground remembers where I’ve been
But forgets the girl I was within

A river runs where my tears won’t flow
It knows the way but tells me no

Oh falling petals
You dance so slow
You’re the secrets the seasons will never show
With every drift
With every glide
I feel you sink where I used to hide

Stars collapse into pools of black
Every dream feels like a heart attack
A quiet fire burns through my chest
It’s the ache of love
It never rests