Sequence One: City of Glass

The city breathes in patterns, in numbers dressed as souls

Every window shows a heartbeat someone else controls

They sold us safety, pixel-wide and chrome

I once knew silence, now the silence has a tone

Human variance detected, desire: non-essential

There's a color in the static, a whisper in the code

If we bleed enough of meaning, the wires might implode

City of glass, faces of chrome

I still recall a pulse called home

Count me alive beyond your scans

I won't be measured by your hands

Compliance acknowledged

Billboards pray in binary, dreams are patent-owned

Children learn to edit tears, to smile pre-downloaded

Still I hear a heartbeat left unscanned

Somewhere deep in dusty code unplanned

I kept a page of weathered air

A fingerprint of rain

Your name survived the checksum

Singing through the grain

Deviation registered. Memory breach pending

City of glass, faces of chrome

Count me alive beyond your scans

Outcome: uncertain

The sky remembers..

But it's not our sky anymore