We'll Light the Dark

yeah, i know... the sky got dark... it's been dark for a while... sometimes it feels like that's just how things are now... that the lights are all out... like we're all alone... just floating through the dark... ...but there's something you need to know... we're NOT alone... cause we're both here... and if I'm still here... you won't EVER have to stand alone... I know it’s dark at night… like the moon don’t hit the same and when the morning comes the sun don’t chase away the pain cold stays in the system hard times settling in everybody fighting just to hold on when the grip gets thin weight pressing down heavy like it’s coded in the frame trying not to slip… trying not to break then the silence settles in and the room goes still but your thoughts get louder running loops you can’t kill every worst case scenario starts lighting up your head walls closing in tight like the space is being compressed trying just to breathe… but it won’t come through like your lungs forgot the function like the air’s not getting to you vision starts narrowing, edges fade to black every exit feels distant— no clear path back try to stabilize… but the system won’t align feels like everything’s collapsing at the same time we’ll light the dark even when it breaks we don’t fade out we don’t drift away we’ll light the dark hold the signal on if you lose your place you won’t be alone I see it in the signals all around me low output, barely holding steady people running threads on empty cycles still pushing forward when they’re not ready carrying weight they never showed trying to keep it under control every system fighting overload but no one wanting to let it show I’ve walked through spaces just like this where everything feels close to collapse where one more push could break the frame and there’s no clear way to get it back but listen close—there’s something there beneath the noise, beneath the strain a signal holding through the dark a constant line that still remains it’s not just yours… it’s all of ours running parallel through the same every voice that’s holding on keeping light inside the frame I’ve seen flickers in the distance other lights that never died even when they dimmed to nothing something in them stayed alive weak connections still connecting broken lines still intertwined even fractured signals carry traces running side by side if you feel like you’re the only one barely holding through the strain there’s a thousand more like you right now pushing through the same domain we’ll light the dark even when it breaks we don’t fade out we don’t drift away we’ll light the dark hold the signal on if you lose your place you won’t be alone