Sacred Fire

Through the haze of midnight rain Each memory dissolves like morning's strain Autumn gilds the concrete with its touch While time bleeds silently through dusk My pulse has found a different beat No shadows left for me to meet The city's roar now passes through A ghost that I once thought I knew This wild thing inside my chest Finally learned how to rest Youth's inferno dims its flame Nothing burns quite the same My pulse has found a different beat No shadows left for me to meet Let artificial lights fade low My eyes have learned which way to go Reality or fever's dance? We're caught between sleep and chance Each soul blazes, then turns to shade A single note in life's cascade Desire's thorns have lost their sting Death of youth or phoenix wing? Sacred were those burning days Now scattered in time's endless maze My pulse has found a different beat No shadows left for me to meet Beneath this dying urban glow I've learned which ghosts to let go