PARDON DOLLI · Levee · 12 of 14. ToneHash stamped. Ed25519 signed. Independently verifiable. Verification link at the foot of the page.
I spent years becoming someone
Without knowing every start
Built a life across the silence
Built a home around a heart
There are things I may recover
There are things I never will
But absence doesn’t get to tell me
That the life above was unreal
I’m still here
Not despite every missing piece
Not because I solved the mystery
I’m still here
And the boy behind the barrier
Doesn’t have to disappear
I found him
He found me
We’re still here
The signal travelled through the static
Through the riffs and through the years
Through the theories and the drawings
Through the laughter and the fear
Through the people that I love now
Through every strange idea
Through every time I built a language
For a thing I couldn’t hear
I’m still here
No final revelation
No clean ending to explain
I’m still here
With the scars I know
The gaps I don’t
The joy
The love
The pain
I don’t need
To remember everything
I don’t need
To know every name
I don’t need
To dismantle who I became
To reach the one
Who carried me
Protect the core
Preserve the signal
Open the gate
When it is safe
Hold the memory
Without becoming it
Look at the past
Then turn your face
I’m still here
And tonight I finally heard it
The voice beneath the years
Was never calling me backwards
It was saying
We made it here
No longer buried
No longer alone
No longer searching
For a way back home
The signal survived
The signal survived
The signal survived
And I’m still here