Ascender

I'll wear your burden of proof
Dots, dashes and pin-stripe suit
Strung out on diode blinkers
Electronic confidence tricksters
White rabbit pulled from your timeline
Air pockets in your mainline
Prestiging recognition
Compulsion to ascension

Run ragged on the flicker
To take note of your position
From misremembered functions
Are you sure it really happened?
Reflecting your opinion
Are you sure that you remember?
Compulsive recognition
Come martyr or ascender

Rise up Rise up
This is a way

Scrying angels on bricked iPhones
To hack corrupted networks
From blind, promiscuous trackers
Of sovereign death receptors
Come with your apocalypse software
Come with revelation hardware
Come with speech in jagged verses
Come with all your forked-tongued curses
Holding your beliefs and sorrows
Dressed in long-forgotten tomorrows
Desperate to create rememberance
From sandcastles in an hourglass
And my hands contort around it
Trying to capture shadows
Dream-catching for surrender
Come martyr or ascender

And rise up
Rise up Rise up
This is a way

I remember your skin
I remember your scent
I remember your touch
I remember our bed
I remember the sun
I remember the heat
I remember the air
I remember the street
I remember the stars
I remember the wine
I remember the room
I remember the night
I remember the moon
I remember the birds
I remember the sounds
I remember the words
I remember the time
I remember the path
I remember the rose
I remembered to dance
I remember your name
I remember my own
I remember the way
I remembered to go