Unspoken Symbols - Reflected - Echo Loom - t∞₀

Verse 1: A feather falls where no bird flies Salt crystallizes in unwept eyes The clock strikes thirteen in an empty hall And mirrors reflect what shadows recall Pre-Chorus: She who tends the dying flame Speaks in tongues without a name Chorus: Something wakes beneath the still water Something older than the stones remember It wears the face of every daughter Who danced too close to fading ember Verse 2: The shepherd counts and finds one more The river runs backward from the shore Trees bow east when no wind blows And the earth hums hymns that no one composed Pre-Chorus: He who guards the threshold's seam Walks the space between awake and dream Chorus: Something wakes beneath the still water Something older than the stones remember It wears the voice of every father Who swore oaths they failed to tender Bridge: We built our towers on borrowed time Mistook the silence for the sublime The oracle spoke in rust and vine— "What you have sown now comes to dine" Verse 3: A child draws circles in the ash Lightning frozen mid-flash The bell tolls hollow, cracked and worn Announcing futures already torn And when the messenger arrives Wearing your ancestor's eyes You'll know the debt has come to call— The weight of wings Before The fall