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Ashes of the Oath

Justin Otani

Whispers of iron echoes in glass

A city sleeps beneath its mask

Born in steel I served their peace

Where silence spoke and hearts would cease

To question fate was to disobey

And so I knelt and looked away

I watched the sky through tinted panes

Believing law would cleanse the stains

But in the dark a trembling hand

A girl who dared to take a stand

They claim to guard the world from fear

Yet crush the voice we hold so dear

If this is ordercold and blind

Then I'll forsake the chain that binds

The footage glowed: a child a cry

I saw myself left there to die

The ones I served had forged my cage

And now they fear my growing rage

She showed me truth beneath the lies

And fire returned behind my eyes

I was their tool their ghost their spy

But I will no longer comply

What did I save? Whom did I spare?

When I erased without a care?

Justice isn't just a name

It's born in hearts that burn with shame

"You'd betray us now?" he screamed

My oldest friend the one who dreamed

"I won't kill in silence anymore

I fight for lives worth bleeding for"

We fled through fire through ash and rain

Each footstep echoing with pain

The city's light so vast so dead

Yet in her voice a hope was said

If mankind's truth can still decay

If even dreams can drift away

Then let me stand and scream and sing

That I believed in something

Not for a flag or ordered fate

But for the heart they tried to break

Let them call me traitor shade

I'll be the light they couldn't make

Even if the sun won't rise

Even if this fight denies

A dawn for me let them say

He burned so others found their way

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