Ghostlight

In an empty room where the curtains breathe

Dust makes constellations over late-night tea

Your sweater on the chair keeps outlawed heat

Streetlights smear the glass as time folds its sheet

I keep a bulb on the stage of my chest

A single glow for the shadows you left

You're my ghostlight—stay—burning in the black

An afterimage I can't turn back

Every beat says "hey, never dim, never fade"

I'm singing to the ghostlight you made

Photographs bloom like negatives in rain

We talk in vinyl crackle, needle tracing our names

I wear your silence like a borrowed coat—

It smells like thunder and a leaving note

I keep the bulb where the night forgets

A small defiance the dark won't get

If love is a theater closed for the night

I'll sweep the stage till the sunrise bites

Humming low until the rafters reply—

Let the curtain lift, let the wires sigh

You're my ghostlight—stay—burning in the black

An afterimage I can't turn back

Every beat says "never dim, never fade"

Ghostlight—stay—through the storms we made

Never dim, never fade—stay

Stay—like a lantern in the rain

Stay—like a lantern in the rain