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The wall gave way
No warning
No ceremony
No final chance
To reinforce the seam
Just one sound
Low and absolute
Then everything
Came through
Years under pressure
Years without language
Years behind concrete
Learning how not to move
Then the fracture widened
And the whole damned river
Remembered
What it was
Deluge
Not a trickle
Not a signal
Not another hairline crack
I can study from a distance
Deluge
Every buried thing
Arriving with momentum
Every voice I never heard
Finding volume at once
I thought the wall was holding danger
Maybe it was holding me
Maybe all that pressure
Was not waiting to destroy me
Maybe it was waiting
For somewhere safe to go
So let it come
Let the water take the dust
Let it tear the old markings
From the concrete
Let every room built on silence
Hear the foundation move
Let every institution
That taught me containment
Watch its architecture fail
I am not asking permission now
The gates are gone
Deluge
Memory without order
Feeling without grammar
Sound without explanation
Deluge
No neat chronology
No clean confession
No single story
Strong enough to hold it
Just everything
At once
I can hear the riffs again
Back before I knew
What I was listening for
Back when the sound reached somewhere
The words couldn’t follow
Back when I thought
I was chasing noise
I wasn’t
I was tracing water
Behind the wall
I was following pressure
Back to the source
I was leaving myself
Coordinates
Virtual tattoos
On a body made of time
I kept writing
I kept building
I kept naming systems
That remembered what disappeared
I kept drawing membranes
Around things I could not touch
I kept asking
How something absent
Could still shape the field
Now I know why
The question never left
The wall gave way
And underneath the roar
I heard something small
Not screaming
Not broken
Waiting
I know you
I know
You held it back
Because I couldn’t hold it
You kept the gates shut
Because someone had to
You stayed down there
While I built a life above you
You waited
Until I could come back
With hands big enough
To carry both of us
So let it come
Let it flood the old rooms
Let it wash through every corridor
Where fear learned my name
Let it rise over the foundations
Without taking the house
Because the house is mine now
The life is mine
The voice is mine
And this time
The water does not choose
Where I stand
Deluge
I am not drowning
Deluge
I am remembering
How to float
Deluge
The wall is gone
And all that pressure
Has become motion
All that silence
Has become sound
All that darkness
Has become depth
All that fear
Has become distance
I thought the end
Would feel like collapse
It doesn’t
It feels like scale
It feels like weather
It feels like standing
Where the wall once was
Soaked through
Still breathing
Watching the water move past me
Realising
It was never coming
To take me away
It was coming
To take me back
To myself