5.The Bones I Chose to Keep

[Verse 1] They left me buried in the faultline’s breath Whispered I was better off with death But I rose with ruin in my lungs And made my anthem from the tongues they stung [Verse 2] These scars aren’t stories that I hide They’re the map of every time I died And chose to stand when silence called Built my name from where they’d fall [Chorus] I am the bones I chose to keep The ghosts I let inside to speak No gilded frame, no borrowed light Just sharpened truth and endless fight [Verse 3] They dressed their fear in sacred lines Told me healing meant decline But I wear rage like tempered steel And every wound I make them feel [Bridge] You thought I’d break like the rest of your kings But I carved my strength from forgotten things This grave they built became my throne These bones are mine — I stand alone [Final Chorus] I am the bones I chose to keep Not what they broke, but what runs deep I walk through fire, I do not sleep The crown is forged in what I reap