Ascension I

I used to run from the shadow,

Hide from the weight of the name.

Watched from the corners in silence,

While others all carried the flame.

Old voices echo like thunder,

Photographs fading with time.

But something inside me is changing,

A call I can't leave behind.

I was the watcher, the quiet refrain,

Now I'm the bearer of legacy's chain.

This is my ascension, I rise from the ground,

The crown I inherit, the oath I've now found.

I carry their stories, I shoulder their fight,

Born from the ashes, I blaze into light.

No more pretending—I stand at the gate,

This is my time now, I carry their fate.

The walls are lined with their triumphs,

The floorboards still creak with their laughs.

Each scar that they earned, now it guides me,

Like maps carved in memory's glass.

I used to fear the reflection,

Now I see wisdom in age.

The boy in the mirror has vanished,

A man steps into the cage.

Truth isn't given, it's battled and bled,

I'll speak for the voices that time never said.

This is my ascension, the torch in my hand,

The keeper of secrets I now understand.

I walk with the giants who showed me the way,

I'll lead through the silence and never betray.

No more illusions—I rise and I claim,

The blood in my veins is the family name.

It's more than a title, it's more than a throne,

It's walking through fire, it's walking alone.

But I won't falter, I won't forget,

The roots that I water, the weight of their debt.

Ashes to ashes, dust into soul,

The fire becomes me, it's making me whole.

From boy into leader, from silence to sound—

Now hear me thunder, I won't back down.

This is my ascension, my name in the sky,

I carry the burden, I lift it with pride.

A son, now a father, a whisper, now roar,

The past walks beside me—I am something more.

No more pretending, the journey begins,