The Heart Of You - Anna Calvi

There is a darkness

A heaviness that is concealed

Inside these boundaries

Inside a plain of frozen fields

There are no weapons

No sharpened blows to be sustained

No, only malice

And the tapping of the rain

But there’s a dream I keep

In a world so dark and deep

The one true paradox

I’m terrified to meet

There’s a dream I keep

I go in when I sleep

There’s nothing they can do

No one will keep me from the heart of you

You are illicit

You are the shield against the fire

Of all that’s hollow

Of all the bodies on the pyre