Ashes of the Future

The skyline burns, a funeral hymn

Of every lie we buried in

What once was steel now falls like rain

A monument to all our pain

The neon gods, they lost their grace

I see the cracks on time's own face

No more to chase, no stars to chart

Just cinders cradled in my heart

Ashes of the future fall

Like snow upon a crumbled wall

No golden dawn, no promised land

Just dust and smoke in open hand

Ashes of the future breathe

In silence where we used to seethe

And though the past is burned and blind

There's something new I start to find

I cast away the chains I wore

Forged from tomorrows I adored

Each step I take is scorched, unsure

But every flame begins a cure

The echoes of the world we knew

Still haunt the things I thought were true

But now I walk through flame and flaw

To write a life without their law

Ashes of the future fall

Like snow upon a crumbled wall

No golden dawn, no promised land

Just dust and smoke in open hand

Ashes of the future breathe

In silence where we used to seethe

And though the past is burned and blind

There's something new I start to find

No need to build what was before

Let ruin speak, then close the door

The spark that rose from what decayed

Might light a path we never made

Ashes fall, but I remain

Not clean, not pure, but unchained

And from this fire, raw and true

I'll make a dawn they never knew