Queen of the Ruins

No mercy
No mercy

I wear no crown, I hold no claim, no mercy
Yet all that's left still speaks my name
The marble cracked
But I remained to watch it well

They built their world on hollow creeds
Then bled it dry to feed their needs
But stone remembers what they fear
And I still walk the ashes here

I did not rise for their applause
Nor dance beneath their rusted laws
I stood when glory turned to dust
And ruled because I must

Let others chase their thrones of glass
I learned to build from broken past
My voice is carved in every wall
Not from rise (but from the fall)

No court decreed what I became
No scripture gave my soul a name
But ruins taught me how to reign
Without a crown and without chains

I am the queen of what survived
The flame that walked when none arrived
No gold, no throne, no saints to bless
Just truth dressed in a battle dress
They wrote me off in quiet lies
But I'm the one they can't deny, no mercy

I am the queen of every scar
The one who stood when gods withdrew
They crowned my silence once with fire
But now I speak, and they bow too
No kingdom left, no mask, no lies
Yet still I rise

No mercy