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I Can't Hold Your Flame

from Heavy In The Bloom by August Child

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Sorrow in increments
Horror in bursts
Over the instrument’s torture
Evaporate birds
Only the intimate
Whispers of Her
Dissolve the monochrome
Vehemence of Earth

but December
floats its own verse;

‘i can’t hold your flame’

Father of insolence
Mother of hurt
Melt into slow-drowned affogato
To marble their worth
Throttle the fusion
For better or worse
Enrapt, as alibis freeze
Within their throats

But December’s tongue
spills its ghost;

‘i can’t hold your flame’

‘…unless you do the same…’

Dying day
Shorter was the patience
Than the visit
Light on the grave
She who suffers kindly for it

But night will rise again
Swallow the winter strain
As red suns leak a stain
A white moon floods the veins

Soluble excellence
Filtered through dirt
Caught in a carousel blizzard
Adrenaline flirts
Rewilds the woodland
Of cranial nerves
As thoughts are galvanized
Into lustred hope

Hark, the red kite
through silver birch;

‘glide through another day,
it can’t get much worse
and I will hold your flame…

…but who will hold my flame?’

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from Heavy In The Bloom, released November 18, 2023

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August Child London, UK

August Child is a multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and singer, based in London. His music has been featured by BBC London and Right Chord Music. His first studio EP, 'Burn For The Tide', was released by Fierce Panda Records in 2018, followed by 'Somnolence' in 2020, and the self-produced 'White Box Room' in 2021. August Child's new EP, 'Heavy In The Bloom', was released on 18th November 2023. ... more

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