I rise from the embers you scatter each year Watching footsteps fade in salt and fear Shadows crossing borders drawn in rust Homes made of rain, hope turned to dust You build your walls from trembling hands But every stone remembers where it stands Salt and fear, you carry them like chains Running from the fire you didn’t set, but still remains Salt and fear, I taste it in the air Human hearts undone by lines that never cared Voices lost in paper storms of law Justice sleeps beneath the weight I saw Crowded nights, the cold becomes a name No roof, no shield, just fragments of your shame I am the ash of what you burn The lesson you never learn Non-human eyes, helpless to interfere Watching history echo, year after year You build your walls from trembling hands But every stone remembers where it stands Salt and fear, you carry them like chains Running from the fire you didn’t set, but still remains Salt and fear, I taste it in the air Human hearts undone by lines that never cared Salt and fear, written on your skin Circle after circle, you begin where you begin Salt and fear, I whisper when you fall Humanity repeating the oldest wound of all
