Crown Of The Collapse

Broken glass brain, pieces in my veins

Turned my panic to a weapon, I’ve been carving through the chains

Every scar a scripture I decode when I’m alone

Every loss another fossil in this ribcage throne

Fist full of rage, eyes full of past

Watching every bridge bloom bright, then black fast

I was begging for a halo in a world of rust

Got a crown of the collapse when the steel bit dust

Crown of the collapse

I wear it like warpaint

Out of all this chaos

I rise, I don’t faint

From the ashes of the loss

I forged my name in stone

Power in the downfall

Wisdom in the bone

I saw heroes turn hollow when the cameras cut

All that “forever” talk drowned in the gut

I saw mentors fall, choke on their pride

Taught me more in their ruin than they ever did alive

Now I walk with the echoes humming in my teeth

Every failure like a drum under both my feet

You call it ruin, I call it the rite

Learned to read the dark, now I aim the light

Chaos carved me

Till the edges shone

Every tear tax

Paid in blood and stone

I lost what I loved

Found what I am

Burned my own map

Still I ran