Stay

“When the fate of the world weighs heavy, we fight or we fall.”

The world drifts in small ways - subtly at first. Sands slip into new patterns, tides pull with increasing urgency, the air gathers heat like a quiet warning. We feel it in our bones and on our skin. We see it in slow erosion of places we once thought were fixed. Stay is the moment we choose not to drift, to hold our ground, to ask more of ourselves and less of the fragile world that carries us.

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The weight of the sand on my feet
In the deep
The dreams where I’m rising
High above all this decay
Shall we pray?
Or shall we keep trying?

We all have to fight for the right to stay
The right to stay

The ebb and the flow of the tide
Close your eyes
And feel the erosion
The weight of the wind and the rain
All I am
A drop in the ocean

We all have to fight for the right to stay
The right to stay

Rivers run dry through the fields of fire
I dream of waters flowing
Nothing to breathe but smoke on the breeze
The seeds of loss we’re sowing
The scars in our back, the weight on our shoulders
Still we feed the pyre
Thunder and lightning tell us we’re falling
Falling into the fire

We all have to fight for the right to stay
The right to stay
The right to stay