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In the dim hush of a sunless room, a man in crimson sits—rooted, still— while ember-birds, flightless and flickering, rise and dissolve in slow retreat, each one a splinter of an untold longing. Their wings whisper in silence, a muted revolt, orbiting the edge of the unseen. He watches, unblinking, his gaze a tether— a thread stretched taut between weight and wish. Does he envy the sky they promise, or does their flight bear its own burden? A martyr of moments left unspilled, a keeper of dreams still caged. Time folds between each falling spark, between the hush of embered descent and the climb of another, fragile and fearless. They ascend, untethered. He remains, the anchor beneath their fleeting freedom. Perhaps it is not wings he needs, but the courage to loosen his own gravity, to unchain the alchemy of a boundless sky. And yet, still he sits— a red sentinel of the not-quite-free, watching the flutter of lives he cannot hold, neither soaring nor surrendering, but simply waiting.
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In a sunless room, bathed in rust, He’s anchored down, collecting dust. Flames like birds, they rise, they fall, Little rebels, whispering their call. Does he dream of the open sky? Or fear the weight of learning to fly? Oh, the gravity of small freedoms, Keeps him waiting, keeps him low. Oh, the tether of unspoken reasons, Holds him tighter than he knows. Scarlet sparks in slow ascent, Falling stars that came and went. They don’t ask, they don’t plead, They just rise while he still bleeds. Does he claim their fleeting grace? Or mourn the chains he’s learned to trace? Oh, the gravity of small freedoms, Keeps him waiting, keeps him low. Oh, the tether of unspoken reasons, Holds him tighter than he knows. Maybe it ain’t the wings he needs, But the will to cut himself free. To slip the weight, to lift his eyes, To burn his name across the sky. And yet, still he stays, the crimson ghost, Not quite flying, not yet lost. Just watching flames take what he won’t, Neither soaring, nor letting go…
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