Ash drifts down the empty streets Flames dance where silence rules I carry stories they forbid A spark hidden beneath the fire Eyes blind to truth around them Voices swallowed by fear Yet in the quiet of my mind Ideas awaken, defy the dark No law can chain the thought No flame can burn the mind I hold the words they try to erase I speak where silence reigns Through the shadow of a burning world Knowledge survives, unshaken, alive Whispers grow into echoes Echoes turn to fire Even when the city sleeps Resistance breathes in every heart Pages vanish in the blaze But memory keeps the flame Each thought a quiet rebellion Each heart a library untamed The world may demand forgetting But the mind remembers still Through fear, through shadow Curiosity remains I hold the words they try to erase I speak where silence reigns Through the shadow of a burning world Knowledge survives, unshaken, alive Even if the world forgets Knowledge lingers in the heart Through fear, through shadow The resistance lives And when the ashes settle The stories whisper on Eternally The stories whisper on