Ashes Crown the Defiant

We don't escape. Spoken, no whispering. Filled with housing. From the fire,

we didn't flee. From the ruin, we learned to breathe. We crawled through

smoke with shattered names. Thrones were built on borrowed fate. They fed us

fear, they fed us blame. But scars don't bow and flames

don't wait. We watched their towers rock with time. Gold crowns cracking

under lies. They called us cursed, they called us weak.

Now hear the march beneath their feet. We don't beg, we don't pray,

we don't kneel to yesterday. Every wound, every loss forged the edge