Marigold Lanterns at Midnight

I'll light the marigold path at dusk

Golden embers in the evening dusk

Your name in the grand old flame

Soft as rain when I whisper it again

The veil grows thin, the nightlings near

I hear your footsteps in the mirror

The thousand petals on the floor

Opening the old beloved door

Come home through the gold, come home through the fire

Dance in my memory, rise in the choir

Grief is an altar, love is the spire

You are the light moving through the dark

Come home through the gold, follow my song

In every heartbeat, you still belong

Marigolds bloom where the sorrow was

We keep you living in the arms of us

I said your favorite bread and wine

A little moonlight, a little time

The trumpet calls from far away

Like a bright sunrise through the gray

I do not hold, I do not hide

I let the river of tears subside

For every goodbye that broke my breath

Builds a brighter bridge past death

Come home through the gold, come home through the fire

Dance in my memory, rise in the choir

Grief is an altar, love is the spark

You are the light moving through the dark

Come home through the gold, follow my song

In every heartbeat, you still belong

Marigolds bloom where the sorrow was

We keep you living in the arms of us

Name by name I call you near

Not to summon loss but to keep you here

In the harvest of this trembling night

Your laughter returns in flecks of light

Come home through the cold, come home through the fire

Dance in my memory, rise and acquire

Grief is an altar, love is the spark

You are the light moving through the dark

Come home through the cold, follow my song

In every heartbeat, you still belong

Marigolds bloom where the sorrow was

We keep you living in the arms of us