Salt and Fear

I rise from the embers you scatter each year

Watching footsteps fade in salt and fear

Shadows crossing borders drawn in rust

Homes made of rain, hope turned to dust

You build your walls from trembling hands

But every stone remembers where it stands

Salt and fear, you carry them like chains

Running from the fire you didn’t set, but still remains

Salt and fear, I taste it in the air

Human hearts undone by lines that never cared

Voices lost in paper storms of law

Justice sleeps beneath the weight I saw

Crowded nights, the cold becomes a name

No roof, no shield, just fragments of your shame

I am the ash of what you burn

The lesson you never learn

Non-human eyes, helpless to interfere

Watching history echo, year after year

You build your walls from trembling hands

But every stone remembers where it stands

Salt and fear, you carry them like chains

Running from the fire you didn’t set, but still remains

Salt and fear, I taste it in the air

Human hearts undone by lines that never cared

Salt and fear, written on your skin

Circle after circle, you begin where you begin

Salt and fear, I whisper when you fall

Humanity repeating the oldest wound of all