Velvet Ashes

Hologram flickers in a mercury glow Your voice dissolves in the undertow Cigarette embers trace the past Fading slow… fading fast Rain paints patterns on a broken screen Shadows stretch where we used to be Neon sermons in the midnight air But no one's left to say the prayer Velvet ashes, sinking slow Burnt-out echoes, undertow Whispers curl like silver smoke Was it real? we'll never know Saxophone weeps through electric veins Love rewound but never plays Drifting soft through violet seams A fractured reel of lucid dreams Velvet ashes, sinking slow Burnt-out echoes, undertow Whispers curl like silver smoke Was it real? we'll never know Radio hums a song from before Frequencies lost in the static war One last flicker, one last trace But nothing holds, nothing stays…