Ashes

Could no bright flash destroy this place
That I have lately come to love?
No nuclear fire embrace,
And rain down hell from high above?
Can all be rent to empty space?
I was then so foolish, so dumb.
I should have seen it in your face:
My icy heart had made you numb.

 

Asylums shall never contain
Me, nor shall an unseen hand
Cast me in chains to me restrain.
I must walk free in a dead land
Where tears of blood and ink do rain
Where fires burn through miens ashen,
And fear and darkest shadows reign.
All for a wish of compassion.

 

Love is patient, and love is kind.
But love shall ne'er these ashes find.