Héloïse And Abélard: Letters In Flame

Abélard, my master, my flame
You taught my mind and stirred my veins
By candlelight, I traced your words
Sharper than swords, yet tender as rain
The cloister walls whispered of sin
Yet in our union, truth began
Not merely flesh, but thought entwined—
A solace of soul, a marriage of mind

But the world will not allow
What heaven itself once blessed in vow
And shadows gathered round our name
The ink of love became our chain

O letters in flame, I write through the night
Ashes of passion still burning bright
A vow too heavy, a grief too true
Yet nothing can silence my soul that loves you
Letters in flame, carved deep in our fate
The cost of desire was exile and hate
But though veils cover and distance remains
My heart still bleeds through these letters in flame

They called me bride, then tore us apart
Justice they claimed, but vengeance struck hard
You bore a ruin none can repair
And I, to the convent, was driven in prayer
Though habit binds and psalms I recite
Your face returns in the candlelight
Astrolabe remains our shadowed star
Born of a love the world could not guard

Faith commands me still to hide
Yet no hymn can still my tide
For even clothed in vows austere
Your voice resounds, forever near

O letters in flame, I write through the night
Ashes of passion still burning bright
A vow too heavy, a grief too true
Yet nothing can silence my soul that loves you
Letters in flame, carved deep in our fate
The cost of desire was exile and hate
But though veils cover and distance remains
My heart still bleeds through these letters in flame

Do you not hear? My pen betrays
The struggle of flesh and faith's array
You preach salvation, I hear restraint
But I recall the lover, not the saint
Still I obey, I wear this chain
Yet call you beloved, again and again
If graves must hold what life denied
Together we'll rest, where no vows divide

O Abélard, the years decay
Yet not the sorrow, nor the ache
Our minds were fire, our hearts were flame
The church may bind, but it cannot tame
I live within these cloistered hours
But memory breaks the highest tower
If Heaven demands we walk apart
Still eternity binds my heart

O letters in flame, I write through the night
Ashes of passion still burning bright
A vow too heavy, a grief too true
Yet nothing can silence my soul that loves you
Letters in flame, carved deep in our fate
The cost of desire was exile and hate
But though veils cover and distance remains
My heart still bleeds through these letters in flame

If love could not be lived in life
Let it be sung beyond time
Together in silence, side by side
Letters in flame shall never die