Your smile awakened the lantern within
Guiding my spirit past sorrow and sin
A single beam through the fragile air
Lifted the weight I burdened there
Touches drifted like murmured rhyme
Staying warm through merciless time
Every breath a gentle plea
Calling the lost dream back to me
Hours melted into amber light
Dancing like fire in the quiet night
All the silence stretched in bloom
Filling the corners of an empty room
Take this flame where shadows part
Carry its glow inside your heart
Wherever our distant footsteps fall—
Love keeps the map that binds us all