I Loved the World I Must Unmake

Do not call it mercy Do not call it hate I have carried older sorrows Than the names your candles make I found you under a wounded heaven With green fire in your hand You looked at me like I was only A lonely mage who understood the land For one brief breath, I almost stayed In the world my own regret had made I loved the world I must unmake Every voice, every fragile flame I learned your hope, I spoke your name Then chose the knife and called it fate I loved the world I must unmake Let that be the wound I take If I become the dark you fear Know I was never empty here Your people prayed, my people vanished Both truths cut beneath the skin I broke the old and found the new Alive enough to break again No crown could heal what time concealed No gentle hand could hold the Veil I loved the world I must unmake Every voice, every fragile flame I learned your hope, I spoke your name Then chose the knife and called it fate I loved the world I must unmake Let that be the wound I take If I become the dark you fear Know I was never empty here The Anchor burned, the mirror shone I saved your life and left you alone Not because the love was small But because my sin had teeth for all I loved the world I must unmake Every song, every stubborn flame I learned your hope, I spoke your name Then chose the knife and called it fate I loved the world I must unmake Let that be the wound I take If I become the dark you fear Remember I was human here Do not forgive me But remember me awake