Like a lovesick fool in a fever

(Lost in the shimmer, drunk on a blur)

I’ve been chasing shadows of your tune

Dizzy but sure it’s love

Walls don’t echo, but I still speak

To the silence where you used to be

I carve your name into the dark

And call it poetry

I gave my voice to the vacuum

(I gave my voice, I gave my voice)

Now it sings me lullabies

That don’t let me sleep

Gone is my sky

Gone are the wings I was born with

(Where did they go? Where did they go?)

Hope don’t float when your soul won’t lift

I’ve been bleeding in the fold of time

Still whisperin' “I’m fine”

But I lied—

Gone is my sky

Like a storm that forgot how to break

I’m all pressure, no release

My prayers are postmarked yesterday

But they never made it east

I used to dance in the light of maybe

Now I just sway in grief

My shadow got tired of waiting

And left me with belief

I gave my dreams to the echo

(I gave my dreams, I gave my dreams)

Now they haunt the halls

Where I used to sleep

Gone is my sky

Gone are the wings I was born with

(Where did they go? Where did they go?)

Hope don’t float when your soul won’t lift

I’ve been bleeding in the fold of time

Still whisperin' “I’m fine”

But I lied—

Gone is my sky

Like a hermit, I have been living

Like a hidden sun I have been missing

To whom I go when I seek giving

To whom I talk when I'm fully sicken

To whom I open in the middle of my sinking

Words only bloom when I'm all splitting

I crave the scent of contentedness in my verses

I'm wailing over beatitude

How long was it missing

As if tearing over blissfulness will make the truth out of wishing

March

Gone are your days

Gone is my hope

Patience has been covering this globe

Waiting had me shattered

Tying my neck around its rope

I stitched my sorrow into stars

(Hold me under, hold me under)

Hoping distance could restart

This worn-out wonder

But patience wrapped around my throat

Like ribbon on a ghost

How long ‘til letting go

Feels like coming home?

Gone is my sky

Gone is the flame that I ran with

(Still burns, still burns...)

Truth don’t rise when the past won’t quit

But I’m still singing into the wind

Where endings sometimes begin

And I try—

But gone is my sky

(Gone is my sky...)

Gone, but I still fly

With broken wings and borrowed light

(Gone is my sky...)

Gone, but I survive