I Fell Before the Sun

Once I walked in halls of white
Draped in silence, dressed in light
But the mirrors lied with every smile
While daggers bloomed behind denial

Every vow was laced with thread
Golden chains that left me dead
I sang their hymns with dying breath
A crown of grace, a masked death

They blessed me only to bind me
Praised me just to blind me
And as the veil began to burn
The truth was sharp, and I learned

I fell before the Sun
Before the light betrayed my name
Torn by tongues of gold and ash
A phoenix drowned in shame
No angels came, no justice done
Only silence watched me run
As I fell before the Sun

What is mercy but a cage
Painted soft to mask the rage?
I held the sword but not the cause
Their holy wrath broke every law

They wrote me into fables
Chained me to their tables
But fire speaks beneath the dust
And not all wounds can rust

I fell before the Sun
Where hope dissolved in flame
They crowned my fall a sacred rite
But never spoke my name
No witness left, no banners spun
Only ashes on my tongue
As I fell before the Sun

Do not call it justice
Do not call it fate
This was silence by design

I fell before the Sun
But I remember every scar
Let the stars forget my face
But not the fire I was
Or the voice that was undone
When I fell before the Sun