Phasewalk Blues

"They say the first Siren touched a star and it touched her back.

They don't say what it left behind."

I was born with the marks. Didn't ask. Didn't choose.

A constellation on my skin that I can't refuse.

People see the glow and they see a god

I see a debt I never owed, a future that's flawed.

They worship the power. They fear the hand.

Nobody asks if I understand

What it means to be a weapon that breathes

To have the universe's finger on your sleeve.

I phase through walls but I can't phase through memory.

I shift through time but I can't shift the century

Of sisters before me who burned just the same

A line of lit matches with no one to blame.

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Phasewalk blues — I move through the void

But the silence is heavy, the silence is loud

Phasewalk blues — I'm here then I'm gone

But the marks stay. The marks stay on.

They call it a gift. They call it divine.

I call it a cage with a lock that is mine

To carry alone, to carry forever

A key that fits nothing. A door that says "never."

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I remember the first time I slipped through the veil

Thought I'd find answers. Thought I'd find a trail

To the Eridians, the architects, the ones who made this

Instead I found emptiness — a void with a face that says

"You are a tool. You are a conduit.

You are a wire that the current runs through.

You are not the story. You are not the song.

You are the space where the power belongs."

I came back screaming. They called it a gift.

I came back hollow. They called it a shift.

Nobody asks what it costs to dissolve

To be nothing at all, to be less than a thought.

"Do you know what it's like to not exist?

To be nowhere and everywhere and neither?

To phase through a bullet and wonder if maybe

You should have let it hit?

The marks don't answer. They just glow.

And I keep going. Because I have to.

That's not courage. That's just… physics."

There are six of us at a time. That's what they say.

Six living stars burning in the galaxy's gray.

I've met two others. Both had the same eyes.

A look that says "I've seen where the truth dies."

One used her power to build something new.

One used hers to burn. I don't judge. I knew.

When the universe chooses you to be its hand

You don't get to decide what you understand.

You just carry the voltage. You just bear the weight.

You just phase through the fire and hope it's not too late.

Phasewalk blues — I move through the void

But the silence is heavy, the silence is loud

Phasewalk blues — I'm here then I'm gone

But the marks stay. The marks stay on.

They call it a gift. They call it divine.

I call it a cage with a lock that is mine

To carry alone, to carry forever

A key that fits nothing. A door that says "never."

"If I phasewalk and don't come back…

Don't look for me.”