Judgment Cut

On that day, if places reversed
Would I have your life, would you have mine?
A coin between us, turning through time
One vow to master, one vow to find

They write me small, forgotten and still
Pride slips loose, I miss the thrill
Names turn sand inside my fist
A quiet tempter calls, I don’t resist

Let me fall all the way down
Write me in ash, not in a crown
Take every ladder out of my sight
I’ll learn the floor before I rise

Walls of reason, soft decay
A thousand lessons, stripped away
Each choice a gate I overstep
The steel remembers what I forget

The mirror hums, but not for me
One blade sleeps, the other bleeds
A shadow born of borrowed pride
Chasing echoes I left behind

Let me fall all the way down
Write me in ash, not in a crown
Take every ladder out of my sight
I’ll learn the floor before I rise

(I rise)

Catharsis as armor, ledgers run dry
Burden to blade, I sharpen the why
Pattern rewired, the lines recut
A devil in red fades from the cut

Blue discipline steadies the hand
Sheath–draw timing splits the span
Call down the still world into lines
Let the divide decide what binds

Cast me your gravity, I carve it to flight
Veil me in darkness, I’ll turn it to fright
All that resisted sharpened the edge
World marks the line, I break the pledge

Old names flake, the newer stay
Azure ribbon shows the way
Sigils align where choices meet
I count from zero, clean, discrete

(Ledgers are closed, the debt is dust)
(Steps fall in order, I keep the trust)
(The brother of blaze recedes from view)
(Calm as a verdict, I am now redrew)

Cast me your gravity, I carve it to flight
Veil me in darkness, I’ll turn it to fright
All that resisted sharpened the edge
World marks the line, I break the pledge

(Summon the silence, let time unfold)
(Draw from the void, I make mercy cold)
(Every division, a promise is shut)
(I am the balance)
Let the judgment cut
Judgment cut