Sanat

Everything I called myself is fuel
Every story I believed is tinder
The identity I built for forty years
Burns in ninety seconds to a cinder

I held my name like armor
I held my past like proof
Every scar a story
Every story a roof
But the fire doesn't care about the story
The fire only knows what's true

Remember to die
Before the body falls
Remember to die
While you're still standing in these halls
Let the old one burn
Let the skin break free
What's left after everything
Is what you came to be

This is not destruction
This is not the end
This is the most violent form
Of learning how to bend
Surrender is not weakness
Surrender is the blade
That cuts through every version
Of the self that fear has made

The ego screams like metal in the forge
It bends, it cracks, it begs to keep its shape
But the fire is not cruel - the fire is the door
And walking through is not the same as escape

Remember to die
Before the body falls
Remember to die
While you're still standing in these halls
Let the old one burn
Let the skin break free
What's left after everything
Is what you came to be

When you stop being afraid
Your old self dies
And you are born again
Into this life
With the same hands
And the same eyes
But nothing is the same
Nothing is the same

Ash and silence
Ash and light
The one who entered the fire
Did not survive the night
But something else is breathing
Something else is here
And for the first time
It knows no fear
Knows no fear