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Lost Words ©️

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I stand upon the peak, where the wind howls like the voices of the fallen, where the sky bends low beneath the weight of all that has been and all that will never be. Below me, the world stretches vast and indifferent, a rolling tide of lands conquered and lives lost, yet in my chest, there is an emptiness no empire can fill.

I have razed cities to the ground, turned walls to dust, and bent the will of nations beneath my sword. But there is no force, no army, no fury of the heavens that can break the chains of the past. No blade can sever a bond already frayed by time, no siege can reclaim what was given freely and then squandered.

I cry out to the sky—to the gods who remain silent, to the spirits of the ancestors who watch from the void:

What is the worth of conquest, if the heart is a battlefield no victory can claim?

No horse can outrun the weight of what might have been. No banner can wave away the memory of hands that once reached for me, only to slip away into the abyss of their own making.

To wage war against time, against fate, against the choices already made—this is a battle even I cannot win. And so I stand, alone on the roof of the world, my war cry swallowed by the wind, knowing that some things are beyond even the reach of kings.

And this, above all, is my bitterest defeat.

Gods of the Dying Sun ©️

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Rise now, O red earth, O bones of the sun, Split the dawn with your burning breath, Let the wind cry out from the jagged stones, Let the sky pour fire upon my flesh.

O gods of the high desert, who sleep in the dust, Who turn in the belly of the trembling hills, Who whisper through the ribs of the coyote’s song, Come forth in the hour of my calling.

I am the wanderer, the hollowed hand, The foot that treads where shadows burn, Where the river runs thin as a silver thread, Where time is swallowed by the open mouth of the sky.

Fill me with the rage of the thunderhead, With the patience of the sun-cracked stone, With the howl of the wind that gnaws the cliffs, With the hunger of roots that drink the dark.

Let the stars etch their scars on my skin, Let the sand carve my name in the endless tide, Let the heat of the earth rise through my bones, Until I am no more man than storm.

I call you forth, O watchers of the lonely hills, O keepers of the brittle moon, O nameless ones who wear the dust—Rise, rise, and enter me!

For the road is long, and the night is waiting, And I must be fierce as the desert’s breath, Sharp as the teeth of the howling wind, Strong as the stone that breaks the light.

I will not fall. I will not turn. I am the fire, the dust, the storm, And I will do what must be done.