THERMALS (Cover)

I learned your shape in the pressure of the wind Every silence taught me how to glide again I circled you above the waterline Starving, patient, baptized by time You fed me hope with broken hands Salt on my tongue, blood in the sand I folded trust into my wings And called it faith in everything I was made to fall from heaven Just to prove I’d rise for you I loved you from the thermals From the lift beneath the pain I held your name on my lips Till it rusted into blame Now I hover in the fallout Of the god you made of me I was never meant to land But you clipped my wings to see I watched the shoreline change its mind Like you did every other night You said “stay close, don’t look below” While sharpening the stones you’d throw I mistook the cage for rest Mistook your need for righteousness I dove for you through violent seas And broke my spine on certainty If devotion is a weapon You taught me how to bleed I loved you from the thermals From the lift beneath the pain I held your name on my lips Till it rusted into blame Now I hover in the fallout Of the god you made of me I was never meant to land But you clipped my wings to see Say it was love Say it was holy Say I was foolish For wanting you wholly I carried you like prey through storms My hands are numb, my life is torn If this is worship, let it end I won’t circle you again I am the silence after impact The shadow over open water I am the scream trapped in a throat That learned too late how not to hope I loved you from the thermals From the lift beneath the pain I broke myself descending Just to hear you say my name Now I rise without permission From the wreckage you left in me I was never yours to keep I was born to leave Still… When the wind remembers you I almost turn back