Where the Black Wings Go

[Intro] There’s no wind where I’m going. Only movement. Only lift. [Verse 1] I didn’t feel the leaving. Just the weight fall quiet. Like a name I’d been holding Finally set down. The air knew me first. Cold, but not unkind. And something dark passed overhead That didn’t ask me why. [Chorus] I’m not afraid of the height anymore. The ground has nothing left to show. Every road I tried to finish Ended long before I knew. I don’t ask for signs or answers now, I don’t need the truth I owed- I don’t need to know what waits ahead, Only where the black wings go. [Verse 2] There are others in the moving dark, Drifting the same direction. No voices. No faces. Just the sense of being kept. We don’t touch. We don’t speak. We travel side by side. Whatever mattered to our names Stayed below the sky. [Chorus] I’m not afraid of the height anymore. The earth has loosened its hold. Every fear I carried upward Feels smaller every mile below. I don’t need to be remembered, I don’t need to be known- I don’t need to know what waits ahead, Only where the black wings go. [Verse 3] Some of us left in pieces. Some of us whole. Some were tired of running. Some just followed the pull. No one is ahead of me. No one is behind. We are only what we’re becoming As the sky forgets our lives. [Bridge] This isn’t mercy. This isn’t blame. No door thrown open wide. Just steady wings And borrowed wind And time learning how to pass. [Final Chorus] I’m not afraid of the height anymore. Nothing down there needs me now. All the weight I called my future Is already breaking down. I don’t ask where this ends or starts, I don’t ask what this is for- I let the question fall away And follow where the black wings go. [Verse 4] I can’t tell where I end now, Or where the others begin. The space between us closes Without touching skin. If I ever carried a reason, It loosened somewhere in the climb. What remains keeps moving Without needing to be mine. [Outro] The sky keeps widening. The voice keeps thinning. The wings don’t turn around.