Original Song (+poem) "Keep Me Close" for 3speak

My original song with a simple video I made a few years back.

Lyrics:

Keep Me Close

I have never seen such light before;
I have never known such warmth.
I have always fought to find my home--
Never thought it'd find me first.

You have given me what I have lost
Through the carelessness of them:
All their broken deeds and lying love;
You have built me back again.

If I walk alone again tonight
I don't know where I will go--
Where these streets will wind, what feet will find,
If I'll lose me in the cold.

So keep me close
At your side
Never go;
I'll be fine, I'll be fine.

In the morning I will wake from sleep,
As the colours cover me;
No more black and white upon my skin--
No more ice inside my bones.

Quiet Love Heals

Quiet love heals
Many still-buried violences--
Pours in, just so, steady,
Awakening the silences:
Slowly, slowly caressing
The fine, thin delicate places of skin--
The darknesses that hide within the pitied spaces:

A vibrancy and lustre in the grey, wake of death;
The joyful repair,
The innocent, inquisitive eyes
Of a beloved.

© Kay Clarity, 2021.