Fortune Without Illusion

[Narrator : unknow, solo voice] [Intro] She has everything that never touches her back. [Verse 1] Carole wakes before the house exhales. Bare feet on stone. Cold marble learning her weight. The mirror doesn’t flatter. It waits. Silk slips from her shoulder without ceremony. She moves like someone who no longer rushes toward desire — because desire already knows where she is. [Pre-Chorus] She loved a man who needed the world to answer him. She offered silence. He called it absence. [Chorus] She doesn’t dream of thrones anymore. She dreams of rooms that lock from the inside. She has money. She has power. And no illusion left undressed. [Verse 2] Her son sleeps behind a closed door. Breath steady. Warm. She doesn’t watch him — she listens. History has already leaned toward his name. She places her body between him and every future that asks too much. [Pre-Chorus 2] She learned this late: Creation doesn’t save. It exposes what was already hungry. [Chorus] She doesn’t buy desire. She delays it. She doesn’t own tomorrow. She negotiates with time until it softens. [Bridge] Some women are desired. Some are obeyed. She discovered that the most dangerous ones are neither. [Final Chorus] She has everything that can leave her. And nothing that begs to stay. [Outro] Carole does not rule the world. She keeps it at a distance where it cannot lie to her.