Effigy

You left the light on, tonight.
It'll be on in the morning.
You burnt me out today.
Tonight, we're still on fire.
We're an effigy to us.

You broke my heart just now.
But now, I rest in pieces.
You left me out tonight.
Tonight, you're staying in me.
We're an effigy to us.

You caged me in tonight.
Tonight, a cage is perfect.
We fell in love tonight.
Tonight, we'll climb back in there.
We're an effigy to us.

We fought and sparred tonight.
Tonight, our hearts are weathered.
We hugged, blissed out, tonight.
Tonight we lie together.
We're an effigy to us.

And I've never felt so alive,
So violently unstable.
And I've never felt such a human,
Never felt I was able.
And I've never been so unguarded,
Never lowered my defences;
Discarded my affectations so freely,
Compulsions so completely.
And I vowed not to write a love song,
Snd it's more a hymn to sensation,
A tribute to a feeling,
The essence in revealing.
My gratitude is unnerving,
And less than you're deserving.
But this hymn is more a reflection;
A pool I can see my face in;
A lake to pour our grace in
And freeze in a caption,
A moment I can skate on
Whenever I start to feel
Landlocked and lonely;
A reminder:
We can pirouhette with the gods.