Only if…you choose to fly

Your heart is a warm blanket,

Beneath where our love sprouts.

Your love keeps me from dark

And light.

And keeps my hands manacled against my throat—

Where the butterflies won't escape the ground.

Honey, please don't hold me so close

It suffocates me.

Do not call me home, 

That I was never meant to be.

I don't belong to the walls or country

I've made the sky my humble abode~

Please don't weigh me down now

For I have wings to grow.

I'll show you a rainbow through the arc of my soul

And the rain too, pouring with droplets of gentle kisses—

I let them caress my cheeks;

Let them remind me, of you.

I'll show you all the stars my heart holds

And how they shine, even in the darkest of nights—

I let them glow until the end;

Let them follow the trails, to you.

I can show you my spirit ablaze

Auburn ashes that sear the blue—

I let them temper in the flame of our passion;

Let them burn, for the sake of you.

Please don't hold me so tight

I've to lift my feet and touch the sky.

Let my shoulder bleed, as wings emerge

And show you how they soar so high.

Your love is winter fire

My blood ignites—

My beloved, don't you worry

Watch the way still I rise.

Like a wild phoenix, I catch fire in eulogy 

And embers in my heart, 

They set me free.

I can show you all, nested in our stories

Like morning glory, they'll bloom to die

We can keep them safely wrapped in clouds~

Darling only if —

you choose to fly...