Shadows twist beneath the flickering light Accusations etched like scars in stone A world convulses, cold and overgrown I wander lost within this endless night Chains of rumor wind around my mind Fractured truths collapse where lies reside The law convicts, though innocence abides Time corrodes, yet memory won’t unwind I never spoke the crime they claim Yet whispers bind me with their flame The river bends, it knows my name One day it’ll carve away the shame Faces blur, their verdicts like decay Labyrinthine courts of twisted reason Hope flickers dimly, stolen by the season I bear the weight of night and endless day Silence claws at walls of fragile bone Words unspoken echo through the void Every breath they take has been destroyed Yet in this storm, my soul survives alone I never spoke the crime they claim Yet whispers bind me with their flame The river bends, it knows my name One day it’ll carve away the shame