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She comes on like a phoenix

another ancient beautiful beneath the fermenting flame

advertising life with every breath

her first dance is a wildfire;

her last kiss, a storm

she continues trusting like the day she was born

no matter whose eyes laid her bare

they saw their grail in her smile

she was their obedient prostitute of paradise

but beneath their story lies the girl

betraying secrets of the world

haunted by the ecstasy of friendship

he watched her conducting symphonies

composed of pain and desire

imagining the lust of her final fire

she teaches ghosts the music

so her tragedy lives on

inside every song about forgiveness

always naked before the orchestra

she confesses only to the moon

her drunken dreams divulge her soulmate search

bound by brilliance, fueled by love

guided by the zodiac above

and every well-intentioned lie remembered perfectly

he saw her mangled heart

author of a thousand apologies

sleeping beside the skeleton of romance

he tried to replace the bones

with the semblance of a home

but by morning that bitter boy was gone like fiction

she wrote him into a fairytale

remembering the truth

every empty promise illuminated

the monster of the moment, she’d be the heroine of dreams

her love, more than what it seems

the fire, waiting for her