Rise Again
Eyes snap open in the thick, starless night,
Bridges still smoking behind, torched by the truth of escape,
Every promise left burning in the rearview of memory,
Faint voices claw at the silence, familiar, relentless–
Haunted by what’s gone but alive because of it,
Born a second time in the sting of tears that refuse to cool.
Shadows flicker and lunge across cracked, empty rooms,
Walls echo with names carved in dust and neglect,
Ghosts taunt from corners, restless in their forgetting,
Every broken bone, every fractured dream–
Nothing left to lose but the fear that pinned you in place,
Strength crawling from the darkness like something that’s earned,
Not gifted, not inherited–clawed out from the unknown.
Rise again from the ash that stains your hands,
Nothing left to cling to but the pulse in your chest,
Torn down, ripped raw, scraping for footholds on the ruins,
The hour is black, but the heart pounds defiantly,
Rebirth is no fairytale–just the grind of claws in the dirt,
Midnight blooms electric in the body,
Survival turns to hunger, hunger to will.
Echoes linger–your name, spit back by the void,
But you answer anyway, even when your own voice trembles,
Stand up to the roar of everything that wants you to crumble,
Cold wind bites, but your spine stiffens in spite,
Refusing the easy end, refusing to lie still,
Waking from the gravity of the endless fall,
Eyes locked on the horizon that threatens and beckons.
Fragments of a life, shards ground underfoot,
But still, walls rise–brick by bitter brick,
Whatever the cost, you’ll build what’s left from what was broken,
Eyes burning wild, resolve caught like flame in dry grass,
You know the choice: evolve, or dissolve into the dust.
Beneath the skin, fires smolder,
New life kicks, desperate for air,
Every haunted hall you escaped is just a scar,
Nothing binds you now–not silence, not guilt, not the mind that once betrayed.
The locks have been broken, the doors torn away–
What stands up from the wreckage is raw, but it’s real.
Set free from what held you–
And in the dark, against every old promise of defeat,
You rise again, remade by everything that tried to keep you down.