You Were Chosen Once

You climb where the fire burns weakest and low

Where the small, dying light barely manages glow

You sit on the edge like you’re ready to fall

But I’ve seen that look… it don’t fade at all

I’ve watched men like you in the turning of years

Bury bright names under silence and fear

But some things don’t dim, they just wait out of sight

Like embers that breathe in the depth of the night

You don’t have to speak, I can hear it still

In the quiet between what you are and will

You were chosen once… that mark remains

It don’t wash away in the passing of names

They can build their walls, they can turn their eyes

But they don’t unmake what the fire implies

You were seen once clear… set apart, set above

That kind of spark ain’t a thing to remove

They may move on, they may refuse

But what you are… was never theirs to use

You say “used to be” like it buries the flame

Like the past is a thing you can quiet with shame

But I’ve seen what lingers when men turn away

It don’t die in the dark… it just learns how to stay

The world takes its fill, then it leaves you behind

Calls it peace when it’s just being blind

But there’s something in you they never could name

Something older than banners and louder than fame

You feel it stir though you hold it down

Like a deeper voice underneath the sound

You were chosen once… that mark remains

It don’t wash away in the passing of names

They can build their walls, they can turn their eyes

But they don’t unmake what the fire implies

You were seen once clear… set apart, set above

That kind of spark ain’t a thing to remove

They may move on, they may refuse

But what you are… was never theirs to use

There are quieter places than this, you know

Where the surface breaks and the deep winds blow

Where the world grows thin… where the truth runs wide

And the things beneath no longer hide

Walk with me where the air runs strange

Where a man don’t shrink… where a man might change

You don’t have to fight, you don’t have to choose

Just follow the path that’s been calling you

You were chosen once… and I see it still

Not in what you’ve lost—but in deeper will

There’s a door half-closed, there’s a line you’ve crossed

And you’re nearer now than the life you lost

They may never see, they may never choose

But that doesn’t bind what you can’t refuse

You were chosen once… and that truth holds fast

And I’ve been waiting… for you to ask