Doctrine of Fire (Special Version)

I didn't come with flags or thrones

I came inside your quiet nights

I taught your children how to hate

And called it truth, and called it right

I didn't need a sword or law

Just whispered fear in perfect tone

You opened doors you swore were sealed

Now every scream sounds like my own

I felt you move through hollow words

Like smoke that stains the lungs from within

You dressed the poison up as sense

And named the wound a discipline

But even minds you bend and break

Still dream of something they once knew

A voice, a warmth, a different world

That never learned to speak like you

You listened

You lied

You chose me

You survived

I am the lesson carved in fear

The answer simple, sharp, and clean

I am the doubt you couldn't kill

The space between what's said and seen

You build your world on burning breath

I stand where meaning hasn't bled

I rewrote mercy into shame

Made empathy a curse to bear

I taught them strength is standing tall

While stepping on whoever's there

You fear the cracks inside your voice

That's why you drown the world in sound

Because if silence ever speaks

Your whole belief comes crashing down

I am order

You are noise

I am reason

You are choice

Without me, nothing stands

Without you, we can breathe

I am the fire that makes you kneel

I am the scar that proves I healed

You spread your truth until it chokes

You can't unlearn what love has tought