Shadow

I learned to move quieter than guilt
To breathe without asking the world for permission
Every step a subtraction
Every shadow a place to hide the damage

They call it apocalypse when the sky listens
When rivers climb back into the streets
When the earth finally answers violence with violence
I call it consequence

I didn’t pull the trigger on the sun
I just aimed where it was already cracking
You blame me because it’s easier
Than admitting your gods are fragile as bone

Paititi breathes under my boots
Not alive—enduring
Built on sacrifice stacked so high
It forgot how to fall
Every wall remembers hands that begged
And were ignored on purpose

Trinity wants control like it’s oxygen
Like history owes them obedience
They dress genocide in clean language
And call it preservation
I’ve seen what they protect
It’s always themselves

Blood in the water
Ash in the rain
The jungle doesn’t forgive
It records
Every sin you bury grows roots
Every lie learns how to hunt

I tried to be the hero once
Tried to outrun the math
You save one life
The world takes ten back
Balance isn’t moral
It’s cruel and it’s honest

The eclipse doesn’t ask who deserves it
The darkness just arrives
Swallows crowns
Swallows prayers
Swallows the last excuse anyone had left

I carry death like a second spine
Not proud
Not repentant
Just aware
You don’t survive this long without learning
How to live with the damage you cause

If I’m the shadow
It’s because the light keeps fucking things up
Burning cities
Exposing throats
Teaching men they’re chosen

So let the sun choke
Let the temples drown
Let the world remember what silence feels like
When the myth finally shuts the fuck up

I don’t stand at the end of history
I kneel in the wreckage
Covered in what’s left
Knowing survival isn’t redemption
It’s just what happens
When you refuse to die quietly

metal, death metal, deathcore, brutal deathcore, melodic death metal, male