I Speak Your Name

Verse

I have ruled by every rule you gave me,

Held the line you chose to die upon,

I have been the queen they needed—

And the woman

Who waited

Long after you were gone.

I kept you nameless for their comfort,

Let the songs stay clean and kind,

But silence has its own cruelty,

And tonight

I am done

Being kind.

Refrain

They taught me names are dangerous,

That love must never lead,

That power lives in what we hide

And strength is learned through need.

But I am tired of their wisdom,

Tired of what I owe—

So hear me now, whatever waits beyond…

I will not let you go

Unspoken.

Bridge (quiet, steady)

You were not a symbol.

You were not a lesson.

You were a man who stood where I could not.

Final Verse

I loved you without permission,

Without future, without claim,

And I have paid for that restraint

Every day I wore this name.

So if fire keeps a ledger,

If wolves still hear the wind,

Then let the world end hearing this—

Not legend.

Not title.

Not myth.

Final Line (alone, unaccompanied)

Jorvyr Welyr.

Outro (silence)