The Third Voice

1) (Left) The living ---------------------2) (Right) The dead

------------------ 3) (Together) The Third Voice -----------------

I survived ---------------------------- because you didn’t

the sea kept dragging --------------- your hands beneath mine

sirens screamed through ------------ the fractured windshield

I tasted gasoline --------------------- inside your last prayer

your blood kept blooming ---------- across my trembling mouth

the ambulance lights flickered ---- like judgment on wet asphalt

you told me to run ------------------ before the fire reached us

I still hear glass breaking ---------- whenever silence gets too loud

the mirror refuses ------------------ to show only one ghost

every birthday after ---------------- felt stolen from your lungs

I survived ---------------------------- because you didn’t