Velvet Ashes

In the dark I rise

Not because I want to

But because I stopped waiting

Shadows whisper my name

I walk

Unchained

Every scar

Every secret

I wear them now

Hear my footsteps

I won't bow

I am the storm

I am the night

In every shadow

I find my light

I bend the thunder

Tame the flame

I write my power in my own name

Nothing can cage this fire inside

Watch me burn through their disguise

I rise

In velvet skies

They drew their lines in the dust

Tried to carve my fate

I turned their walls to ashes

Their doubt into grace

Every chain they gave me

I melted in my hands

Walking through the wreckage

Building from the sand

I am the storm

I am the night

In every shadow

I find my light

I bend the thunder

Tame the flame

I write my power in my own name

Nothing can cage this fire inside

Watch me burn through their disguise

I rise

In velvet skies

When fear crawls in

When the dark feels wide

I remember what survived

From the fracture comes a sharper blade

I am not what they expected

I am everything they made

I am the storm

I am the night

Nothing can cage this fire inside

Watch me burn through their disguise

I rise

I rise

In velvet skies

Velvet skies.

I rise.

Slowly.

That counts.