Hall of Lies

Candles flicker in the hollowed hall.
The echoes whisper where the shadows fall.
Velvet drapes hide the moon's pale call—
Soft as a secret, old as the wall.
Silver threads gleam on a brow turned cold;
A promise folded in a hand of gold.
Footsteps measure what the night will hold;
A toast is spoken—then the story’s told.
Chorus
Moonlight keeps the oath of broken kings,
Silence stitches where the sorrow sings.
Wings that sheltered now remember how to tear,
Silver remembers what it hungers to repair.
We walk the ink between the bell and bone,
We carry lanterns that cannot guide us home.
In the rafters something wakes and waits.
A pulse beneath the stone that counts our fates.
The guardian bends; the sky rotates—
Teeth and mercy stitched in one dark grate.
A bolt of bright metal cleaves the air.
Cold as the law, bright as a prayer.
Chains that blessed become a snare;
The feast dissolves into a single glare.
Chorus
Moonlight keeps the oath of broken kings,
Silence stitches where the sorrow sings.
Wings that sheltered now remember how to tear,
Silver remembers what it hungers to repair.
We walk the ink between the bell and bone,
We carry lanterns that cannot guide us home.
Bridge (whispered)
Listen — in the marrow of this hall:
A child clutches what is left of his mother's pall.
“Run,” becomes a vow; a shadow flies alone.
Beneath the grate, a key falls soft as stone.
Footfalls hollow down the corridor; breath becomes a map.
Old stories lean like broken pillars; no one puts them back.
A boy learns the measure of the dark and how to tap
Courage from the place where fear and iron overlap.
Chorus (final)
Moonlight keeps the oath of broken kings,
Silence stitches where the sorrow sings.
Wings that sheltered now remember how to tear,
Silver remembers what it hungers to repair.
We walk the ink between the bell and bone,
We carry lanterns that cannot guide us home. Candles gutter into memory's slow breath.
The hall exhales a story of loss and debt.
A battered shadow lifts into the cold; the night takes the rest.
What remains is small and fierce and dressed in trembling light.
Moon keeps the oath; the hall keeps the hush.
Children count the stars in their palms and hush.
Silver sleeps in the dirt; the sea takes back the hush —
Somewhere a guardian remembers the shape of a boy’s trust.