Fractured Meridian

They paved our futures in lies

Then charged us rent

It started with static

A flicker, a breach

Buried in silence

Just out of reach

The mirror they gave us

Was silvered to lie

Behind it, blueprints

To bleed us dry

We were the fuel

We were the fire

Stacked like stone in their glass empire

They drew our blood, to power their peace

Built a throne on our silence, and called it release

But the Faultline's burning

And the center won't hold

The meridian breaks, and the ashes grow cold

They fed us the silence

Then weaponized grace

Drew maps on our skin

Made ghosts of our trace

Now fire climbs high

Through the halls of their might

And we dance in the ruins

With nothing but light

We were the fuel

We were the fire

Stacked like stone in their glass empire

They drew our blood, to power their peace

Built a throne on our silence

And called it release

But the Faultline's burning

And the center won't hold

The meridian breaks, and the ashes grow cold

You tear it down like it meant nothing

But you forget

We built it from less

This is not defeat

This is fracture

And fractures guide the light

You will see

You will remember who held the line

The sky bears the scar

Of a mouth once fed flame

We unearthed the silence

And spoke its name

The shape of the lie

Matches stories we burned

Ash still remembers

And time has turned

We were the fuel

We were the fire

Stacked like stone

In their glass empire

They drew our blood

And called it peace

Built their throne