Invisible Thorn (Juni B)

I burned the skies to find you, still you slip between my hands

A whisper in the trade winds, no flag, no iron brand

My wyverns claw the cloudline, my drakes tear through the night

But all they bring me back are shards of rumor, smoke, and fright

They say you’re just a nothing, just a drifting hollow frame

A patched-up little shadow that shouldn’t know my name

But captives vanish quiet, and my powder turns to dust

And every time I strike you, you dissolve into mistrust

Who taught you to be nowhere?

Who made you learn to see?

A ghost inside my stronghold

Laughing back at me

Juni B—why won’t you break?

No teeth, no claws, yet I still shake

You steal my night, you steal my flame

And leave me screaming out your name

Juni B—what are you?

A wound I cannot cut straight through

Invisible, impossible, you’re haunting all I do

And I am fury in the dark because of you

You land like silence falling on my guarded iron gates

My sentries swear they watched you, then they swear it was too late

You carry off my prisoners like wind through broken stone

And leave my watchfires choking on a language not my own

I sent my best wyverns screaming through the storm and ash

They came back with no answers, just a deeper kind of crash

My drakes returned with nothing but the taste of empty air

As if you were a thought that never once was there

You don’t fight like an army

You don’t bleed like a foe

You’re the gap between my arrows

Where I cannot go

Juni B—why won’t you break?

No steel, no roar, yet all at stake

You steal my maps, you steal my claim

And twist my order into shame

Juni B—tell me true

What are you doing what you do?

A phantom thread through all my schemes

Unraveling my waking dreams

I am not meant for riddles

I am not built for fear

But you are in my bloodstream

Always somewhere near

If you are small, then vanish

If you are weak, then fall

But you just bend the battlefield

And you don’t answer at all

Juni B—still out of reach

A lesson I cannot teach

You steal my calm, you steal my name

And turn my power into flame

Juni B—I swear you’ll pay

Yet still you slip away

And I am screaming at the sky

Because I cannot make you die

So I send my sky to hunt you…

and it comes back… empty.