Afterburn

Streetlights hum like low constellations, breathing in the cold

Neon ghosts on wet pavements, tracing where we told

Every quiet vow to meet again when the sky would turn

I kept the match you used to light the camp of my heart

Now it's just smoke in a pocket, but it still leaves a mark

I talk to the empty chair, hear your key that doesn't turn

I'm standing at the edge of what we burned through fast

Jet trails over midnight, fading but they last

If pain's a teacher, let it have its turn

In the afterburn, I finally learn

How to turn this hurt into light that returns

In the afterburn, we crash and we turn

But I won't fade, I won't fade

In the afterburn

Coffee rings like orbits on the table we shared

Pages curled like wings from all the words we bared

I wear your silence loud, but I refuse to wear it stern

I'm running with the sparks that used to make us choke

Breathing through the cinders, blessing every smoke

If loss is gravity, then watch me earn a burn

I won't beg the night to give your shadow back

I'll stitch the dark with silver from the cracks

If there's no road, I'll draw one in the air and turn

In the afterburn, I finally learn

How to turn this hurt into light that returns

In the afterburn, we crash and we turn

But I won't fade, I won't fade—watch me burn

Watch me burn, In the afterburn—afterburn

I finally learn