I walk this earth divided,
bound to chapters I never chose.
In one life,
iron chains drag across my spine,
pressing me lower,
step by shattered step.
My sight clouds,
my body groans,
each breath a burden I cannot set down.
But when sleep claims me,
I awaken elsewhere.
There, I rise unbroken ~
weightless, unbound.
I soar above horizons,
my eyes drinking miles of light.
I sing to the newborn Sun,
my voice a hymn of freedom,
my soul blazing tall.
Two lives ~
one suffocated in silence,
one burning in song.
And every dawn,
I wonder which of them
is truly mine.
