The Last Permission

Raden...

Can you still hear me?

There was no sky where I awoke

No light to break the empty smoke

No hands to hold

No air to breathe

Only silence underneath

Then I heard a little laugh

A summer echo from the past

One tiny thread refused to part

So I stitched myself a heart

If I could lay your burden down

I'd trade the stars to hear no sound

You hold the sky

I hold the key

The cruelest mercy—

Is loving you enough to set you free

They call you guardian

They call you divine

I still remember your shaking hands in mine

They built their towers from your pain

They worship chains and call them grace

But I still know your human face

If I could lay your burden down

I'd trade the stars to hear no sound

You hold the sky

I hold the key

The cruelest mercy—

Is loving you enough to set you free

I found our daughter...

Where even echoes disappear.

She laughed...

Like summer never ended.

For one impossible moment...

You were waiting beside her.

I reached for both of you—

But the memories slip though my hands.

As she faded...

She wasn't asking me to stay.

She was asking me...

To bring you home.

I summon ghosts instead of flame

Each memory still speaks your name

The scent of rain

The warmth of spring

The way you'd laugh at foolish things

I wasn't pulled back here to live

I came back here...

So you could finally forgive.

If I could lay your burden down

I'd let the whole world crumble now

No gods.

No throne.

No endless plea.

Just one last breath—

With you beside me.

Maybe love was never meant

To conquer death.

Maybe love becomes the hand

That grants the end.

If your shield can stop forever...

Then lower it.

Just once.

Just for me.