Fireflies & Fireworks

Fireflies & Fireworks
Valentina

Whispers on the porch swing, no one else was there,
You traced the constellations, July in your stare.
I memorized the silence, the way the night was turning,
Holding on to nothing — but God, we were burning.

But you can't hold the sky, can't bottle the flame,
The brightest things vanish when you call them by name.

Fireflies and fireworks, fading in the dark,
Fireflies and fireworks, still burning in my heart.
Summer nights, July skies, you and me — a spark,
Fireflies and fireworks, love's eternal mark.

Moonlight on your shoulders, smoke rising slow,
We carved our names in shadows only we would know.
The world could not contain us, we broke it with our yearning,
Forever lived a moment — and still, we were burning.

One night can outlive a thousand years,
One spark can survive through the smoke and the tears.
You can cage the body, but the memory's free,
Fireflies and fireworks — forever in me.