Sparrow

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I learned your name from a burning field
From the way the silence bent
Every prayer I tried to keep
Slipped through the cracks I meant
My hands are maps of old regret
Ink washed thin by rain
I swear I saw you breathing light
In the mouth of pain
If I follow where the cold wind goes
Will it leave me hollowed out?
Or teach my lungs to hold the dark
Without putting the fire out
I am ash and I am sparrow
I am breaking just to fly
I've been living in the shadow
Of a God I won't deny
If you hear me in the marrow
Of the night I left behind
Hold my name like stolen gold
And tell me I'm still mine
The river hums like it knows my sins
Calls me brother, calls me home
Every mile I try to run
It grows another bone
I stitched my heart with a trembling thread
Said "this time it'll hold"
But the truth keeps singing through the wound
Like a hymn I never sold
There's a tremor in the lantern light
Like it's scared of what it sees
If I stand here long enough
Will the dark remember me?
I am ash and I am sparrow
I am dust that learned to pray
I keep carving out tomorrow
From the wreckage of today
If I fall into the marrow
Of the fear I couldn't face
Say my name like it's a promise
I was never meant to break
If I vanish in the morning
Don't call it defeat
I was only shedding gravity
From my feet
Love, I tried to stay unbroken
But the light cuts deep
And every truth worth holding
Leaves a scar to keep
I am ash and I am sparrow
I am flame without a throne
If I'm lost inside the narrow
I was never alone
I'll rise slow from the cinder
When the singing starts to fade
I am more than what survived me
I am what the dark remade