Cloudburst By Candlelight (Enola Gay Suite)

The original version of Cloudburst by Candlelight has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by David Belliveau.

Listen to Cloudburst By Candlelight by Richard Charles Stevens (Enola Gay Suite)

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You can touch a cloud
To Life
Save one
With a smile
Delight the shadowscapes with candlelight
And lace each day through vandal night
Unhand the curse of aeons blighted
Reimburse the uninvited
Seek the holy grail and find it
Speak of every angel flighted
.
You can touch a storm
To sleep
Taste one from a dawning dream
Silence tide of yawning screams
And fortify the falling beams
While soaring high above the clouds
Of ordinance relieved
Supported by the fortune of the breeze
.
You can read the scars
Of trees
And each of them remembrance themes
Beseeching them to tend their tales
Undressing tears of blessèd keep
They weep to seep the sap of years in capture and release
The deadwood that sheds aptly at your feet
.
You can breathe it
Back to life
Belief in your eyes magnifies
And every teardrop sanctifies
The grounds foreseen enraptured rise
Then amplifies each boundless dream
And galvanizes seed
Flowers grow the wildest in the weeds
.
You can touch a cloud
To Life
Save one
With a smile
Delight the shadowscapes with candlelight
And lace each day through vandal night
Unhand the curse of aeons blighted
Reimburse the uninvited
Seek the holy grail and find it
Speak of every angel flighted
.
You can bleed
To free the lost
To see them heed the call of ancients
With your sweetness of persuasion
You can heal each deep abrasion
Bride of Spring
Your wings sing hymns of wild imagination
In the garden of my dreams
I see your name and mine emblazoned
And the trees
About us reach
Appeased to free the ghosts of old and breathe
You can lead them Home
Redeemed
If only they believe
In thee
I believe
With all of me
That you were born to fly
You can touch a cloud
You see
And wake one
With a smile
.
You can touch a cloud
You see
And wake one
With a smile
You can touch a cloud
You see
And wake one
With a smile
Wake one
With a smile
Wake one
With a smile
.
You can touch a storm
To sleep
Taste one from a dawning dream
Silence tide of yawning screams
And fortify the falling beams
While soaring high above the clouds
Of ordinance relieved
Supported by the fortune of the breeze
.
You can read the scars
Of trees
And each of them remembrance themes
Beseeching them to tend their tales
Undressing tears of blessèd keep
They weep to seep the sap of years in capture and release
The deadwood that sheds aptly at your feet
.
You can breathe it
Back to life
Belief in your eyes magnifies
And every teardrop sanctifies
The grounds foreseen enraptured rise
Then amplifies each boundless dream
And galvanizes seed
Flowers grow the wildest in the weeds
.
You can be the you
You always wished to be
Make peace with ancient history
Increase your reach consistently
And breach the waves of distant sea
To lift the breeze
Shapeshift with ease
Pain gripped release
Safe trip beseech
Take grip of reins
Retrain your brain
To entertain the greater gain
And place the v in victory
Place the v in victory
Victory
Victory
.
You can touch a cloud
To Life
Save one
With a smile
Delight the shadowscapes with candlelight
And lace each day through vandal night
Unhand the curse of aeons blighted
Reimburse the uninvited
Seek the holy grail and find it
Speak of every angel flighted
.