The Boy Who Burned The Stars

(What happened??) He hides in a corner where the streetlights don't reach A sailor lost on an endless beach His eyes are rivers swollen and dry The kind of blue you only see when stars die He spends his days collecting fragments of time Shattered reflections that don't quite rhyme Every hour's a ghost that haunts his hands Building a castle of sinking sands I call hoping he'll pick up the line His voice cracks "I'm not fine" He says "It's not just a storm—it's the sea" And my words choke in the debris All this time I couldn't see He was sinking slow I'd break the tides tear down the sky If it helped him know Too young to drown in the undertow But I'd burn the moon to make him glow Forever lost if he lets go He paints with shadows on a canvas of dust Building worlds where he can trust His smile's a flicker a moth to the flame A fleeting whisper calling my name Every scar is a map etched deep in his skin Of battles he fought but couldn't win I trace the lines trying to feel his pain But his silence is thunder deafening rain I call pleading to pull him back He's there a silhouette in black He says "It's not the fall it's the flight" And my heart breaks in the night All this time I couldn't see He was sinking slow I'd break the tides tear down the sky If it helped him know Too young to drown in the undertow But I'd burn the moon to make him glow Forever lost if he lets go If I could build a lighthouse in his mind Guide him back to the life he left behind I'd chase away the shadows where they sleep And hold his heart when it starts to weep But he walks the edge where the wild winds call A step from flight a breath from the fall And as he fades into the night's cold grip I scream his name but my voice starts to slip All this time I couldn't see He was letting go I'd shatter the heavens break every chain If it stopped the flow Too young to lose to the undertow But the waves crash hard and they won't let go Forever winter now I know (Ooh ooh ooh) I'd set the sky on fire for you But your silence stole my truth You're a memory carved in the snow Forever winter since you let go He hides in a corner where the shadows sleep A boy who fell too far too deep I say "Believe in one thing—don't leave me alone" But the echoes answer; he's already gone