Fire and Shadow

Verse 1

We chose the place where transects met,

Where east met west, our home was set.

The lake lay still. The dark stayed far.

We named our rest. We marked the scar.

Verse 2

The cloud came down without a sound,

Too dark for storm, too wide for ground.

It did not move like weather does,

It waited where the crossing was.

Chorus

Not from beasts and not from night,

Not from hunger, tooth, or bite.

The danger came when skies aligned—

When shadow met in place and time.

Verse 3

Black lightning split the waiting air,

Struck down hard without a care.

No fire fell. No stone was torn.

But something listened—and was born.

Quiet Verse

It did not rise with claw or sound.

It did not break the marked-out ground.

It gathered where the lines were drawn,

Fed on stillness. Fed on done.

Verse IV

We did not wait to name or know.

We did not ask what came below.

We broke the calm. We broke the night.

We chose the flame against the fright.

Chorus

Not from dark and not from deep,

But from where the answers sleep.

What struck the ground did not depart—

Until we burned a second heart.

Verse V

The fire rose where lines had met,

Fed by hands that would not let

What woke there take our breath and bone—

So warmth was paid in blood and stone.

Final Chorus

Not a sun and not a flame,

Not a star we dared to name.

Born of fear and chosen sight—

We made the fire.

We made the light.

Last Lines

The Night Sun did not rise on its own.

It was raised.

And what it held back remembers that.