Shadows Yet to Come

The fires burned
The altars fell
The dust was swept away
The people gathered

The songs returned
And still
The silence remained
Questions lingered in the air

Like smoke after the flame
Can broken years be mended?
Can forgotten choices fade?
Or do they wait beneath the surface

Patient as stone?
You have turned
But the river remembers
You have changed

But the scars remain
The room stood still
No voice replied
No argument could be found

Some truths arrive like comfort
Others arrive like winter
The future moves
Beyond our sight

Through roads unseen
And distant nights
What is planted
Will someday rise

Not every storm appears in the sky
The shadow is coming
Not for today
Not for tomorrow

But it is coming
Shadows yet to come
Beyond the horizon
Shadows yet to come

Already on their way
The warning settled
Like a weight upon the heart
Not a sentence

Not a defeat
Only a reminder
That time remembers everything
Walk while there is light

Build while there is time
Shadows yet to come
Beyond the horizon
Shadows yet to come

Already on their way