╔══════════════════════════════╗ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 Ⅰ ◷ 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 ◷ ╚══════════════════════════════╝ ⌚ I’ve had this watch since I was born Never moved Never made a sound Until that night. ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Eighteen years I’ve learned to disappear Front row every day Never let ’em near They call me gifted I just play along Smile when I should Pretend there’s nothing wrong Rooms feel different When I walk inside People stop talking I don’t ask them why Then the candle froze 🕯️ But the flame stayed bright A page stopped falling In the middle of flight Every face Was frozen where they were No breath No movement Not a single word But I could move I could still breathe Then I blinked And nobody remembered a thing ⋆｡°✩ ───────── ✩°｡⋆ Maybe I imagined it Maybe I was wrong But how do you forget 𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃? ◷ When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 When everything is still 𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 One blink And it’s gone Like nothing ever happened But I know what I saw Maybe I’ve been In the wrong place all along Maybe that’s why Nothing here feels like home When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 ━━━━━━━━━━ 🕯️ ━━━━━━━━━━ One night Every hallway came alive Candles in the windows Music through the night Then the moon hung low ☾ And the air went still One wrong note And the room stood still Laughter disappeared Mid-sentence, mid-step Hundred open eyes But nobody there I reached for the watch I’d carried all my life Eighteen years silent Then… 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊. ⌚ Everything moved Like nothing had changed But I stood there Knowing I’d never be the same Broken things Don’t wake without a reason That night 𝐈 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 ◷ ───────── ◷ When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 When everything is still 𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 One blink And it’s gone Like nothing ever happened But I know what I saw Maybe I’ve been In the wrong place all along Maybe that’s why Nothing here feels like home When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 ━━━━━━━━━━ ♛ ━━━━━━━━━━ Black stone halls Under an empty sky A throne at the end Like it’s waiting all night Never been there Still I know every turn Every mark on the floor Every door that won’t open Things in the corners Watch as I pass Then one by one They bow where they stand Someone by the throne Looks straight through me Like I’ve been gone For a century I ask where I am He doesn’t answer Just lowers his head And calls me… ♛ 「 𝐌𝐘 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆… 」 ♛ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I look at my hands Something moves beneath Darkness crosses Underneath my skin One steps forward And bows at my feet I lift my hand It comes apart No cry No fight Nothing left And everything watching 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 I should be afraid But I’m not I’m not That’s what scares me It doesn’t feel new 𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 ☾ ⋆｡°✩ ◷ ✩°｡⋆ ☾ When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 When everything is still 𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 Maybe I’ve been In the wrong place all along Maybe somewhere else Has always been home There’s a throne That remembers me ♛ There’s a world I know but I’ve never seen And I don’t know What I’m becoming yet But every time it stops 𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ When the whole world stops 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 When everything is still 𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 Same clothes Same books Same chair Back to pretending There’s nothing there Answer the questions Smile when I should Nobody knows Maybe that’s good Old silver watch Inside my pocket The candle stops 🕯️ This time… 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘 ◷ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 CHAPTER 1 「 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 」
