Hmm hush

A low line lullaby of live wire light
A ghosted gospel in the guttered night

You found me where the streetlights cease to shine
Where whispers wake and watch the windows pine
By day we pass as posture poised polite
By night we bite the fruit of blackened light
They claim my blood is borrowed bruised and bound
A drumline dragged through dust without a sound
Yet we two sparks in soot and siren’s choir
Built bright blind walls from cracks beneath the wire

And it hums like hunger in a harp string’s vein
And it hums like lightning learning how to rain
And it hums the static speaks a sleepless squire
A private prayer pressed close beneath the wire

Beneath the static we are breathing alive in the static
Beneath the static hearts are heaving alive in the static
Beneath the static love lives like a knife alive in the static
We wear its weight we guard its mark
Inside beneath the wire

Your half light splits me clean from skin to soul
By dawn a ghost by midnight made of coal
These streets recite my scars like psalms of stone
Yet in your gaze I taste a tender home
They ink my name in ledgers slick with fear
And grade my breath by shades that don’t appear
But you said stay when all my seams came undone
And stitched my shattered shadow back to one

And it hums a small bright match in monstrous snow
And it hums where sirens sing and shadows go
And it hums as if the night could never tire
Two quiet voices braided beneath the wire

Beneath the static we are breathing alive in the static
Beneath the static hearts are heaving alive in the static
Beneath the static love lives like a knife alive in the static
We wear its weight we guard its mark
Inside beneath the wire

I am your shelter in the storm’s black roar
You are my storm that makes the shelter more
We chase the night to hide our love from day
We chase the day to hide our love from night
We hide our love to live we live to hide
The world could fling a thousand suns we’d bide
Let morning judge with its bleach bright bladed glare
We’ll bloom like bruises beautiful unfair

Beneath the static we are breathing
Alive in the static
Beneath the static hearts are heaving
Alive in the static
Beneath the static love outlives the knife
Alive in the static
Love is the weight love is the mark
Inside beneath the wire

So I dissolve with dawn’s cold careful light
Like smoke that swears it won’t surrender night
Your embers sit in my hands and speak
Still burning bright
Still brave
Still blister weak
In all this noise we fade we fade in the static
Two quiet ghosts still humming
In the static