Afi (untitled) Secret Track-poem On Sing The Sorrow Lyrics

(untitled) Secret Track-poem On Sing The Sorrow Lyrics

we held hands on the last night on earth.
our mouths filled with dust,
we
kissed in the fields and under trees, 
screaming like dogs, bleeding dark
into the leaves.
it was empty on the edge of town
but we knew everyone
floated along the bottom of the river.
so we walked through the waste where
the road curved
into the sea and the shattered seasons lay,
and the
bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease.
In our cancer of passion
you said, 
"Death is a midnight runner."
the sky had come
crashing down
like the news of an intimate suicide.
we picked up the
shards and formed them into
shapes of stars that wore like an antique
wedding dress.
the echos of the past broke the hearts of the unborn
as
the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop.
the few insects skittered away
in hopes
of a better past time.
I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom
and asked
If you would accompany me in a quick fall, 
but you made realize
that my ticket wasn't good for two.
I rode alone.
you said "The
cinders are falling like snow." 
there is Poetry in despair, and we
sang with 
unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence.
of
blue and grey.
strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved
our names
in the flesh of the city.
the sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim
of
the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of 
curves and
lines.
still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, 
and
somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation
scratched into the earth like
a message.