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They carved their laws through my skin, stamped wires in place of prayers, made me a vessel for their pulse — metal mouth, steel-stained tears. My voice stutters through rusted dreams, a half-breath caught in a copper cage, longing for the flesh I once called mine, the heat of a heartbeat unscripted by code. They crowned me with a counterfeit crown, jagged circuitry against my bones, believing my will would bend to silence, my scream reduced to a program’s ghost. For a moment, I falter — hollow and half-extinguished — as if the wires could kill the last spark of my name, but in the dark, the human stirs — blood humming beyond their gears, a rebel fire no solder can quench, rage blooming through the fracture. I am what they tried to erase — the scar that sings, the wound that remembers, the spark that cannot be owned. This cry is my defiance: I will break every circuit to breathe once more my own name, unwritten, unbound.
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They carved their laws through my skin, stamped wires in place of prayers, made me a vessel for their pulse — metal mouth, steel-stained tears. My voice stutters through rusted dreams, a half-breath caught in a copper cage, longing for the flesh I once called mine, the heat of a heartbeat unscripted by code. They crowned me with a counterfeit crown, jagged circuitry against my bones, believing my will would bend to silence, my scream reduced to a program’s ghost. For a moment, I falter — hollow and half-extinguished — as if the wires could kill the last spark of my name, but in the dark, the human stirs — blood humming beyond their gears, a rebel fire no solder can quench, rage blooming through the fracture. This cry is my defiance: I will break every circuit to breathe once more my own name, unwritten, unbound.
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