You Could Not Take Our Will

The sky went red above our home, A cage closed round the silent sun. We felt the fire leave our bones And learned what flesh must overcome. The City broke beneath the fleet, Our Ghosts went dim, our towers burned. No endless life, no second breath - Just mortal hearts that still returned. Across dead roads and broken land, One signal passed from hand to hand: No Light remained to raise the dead - Still, every road turned home instead. He stole the spark and claimed the sky, Convinced that loss would make us kneel. He never knew beneath the Light There lived a fire he could not seal. You took our Light, not our will, Not the oath that holds us still. From the wilds, from ash, from night, We came back ready for the fight. Gate by gate and wall by wall, Mortal, wounded - we stood tall. You caged the sky above the City, But you could not cage us all. On every moon, through every storm, The scattered answered one by one. Not deathless gods, but hands that shook, Still lifting rifles toward the sun. No legend came to march for us, No second life could pay the cost. We carried every name behind The walls we swore were never lost. Let Ghaul look down from stolen gold, And call our hope a dying spark. A throne can wear the shape of power; It cannot rule the human heart. You took our Light, not our will, Not the oath that holds us still. From the wilds, from ash, from night, We came back ready for the fight. Gate by gate and wall by wall, Mortal, wounded - we stood tall. You caged the sky above the City, But you could not cage us all. We were not brave because death failed; Death waited close at every door. We came because behind those walls Were lives worth dying for. And when the white fire split the cage, It did not make us what we are. It only showed the will we carried Through the dark from world to star. You took our Light, not our will, Hear the broken thunder still. Every street and every scar Led us home from worlds afar. Red banners burn and tyrants fall - We were more than Light alone. You caged the sky above the City, But you could not cage us all. The Light may leave. The walls may fall. The will to rise outlives them all.