Ashes of the First Sky

They came down from the city
With their steel and borrowed gods
Trading rivers for commandments
Turning sunlight into laws
They drew borders on our forests
Taught us fear we never knew
Every prayer that we whispered
Was a crime they tried to rule

The drums were once our heartbeat
Now they echo under guns
They erased the ancient thunder
Just to crown their chosen sons
But the roots beneath the ashes
Still remember every sound
And the ghosts of every elder
Shake the dirt beneath the ground

You can burn the names
You can break the land
But the first sky lives
In our blood and hands

We are the ashes of the first sky
We are the fire they couldn’t chain
We are the voices they tried to silence
We are the rain before the flame
You can bury all our stories
But the truth will never die
We are the ashes
Ashes of the first sky

They dressed us in their letters
Tried to wash our spirits clean
Called their conquest holy guidance
Turned our bodies into screens
But the jaguar in the shadows
Still remembers how to roar
And the memory of the mountain
Won’t stay silent anymore

You can burn the names
You can break the land
But the first sky lives
In our blood and hands

We are the ashes of the first sky
We are the fire they couldn’t chain
We are the voices they tried to silence
We are the rain before the flame
You can bury all our stories
But the truth will never die
We are the ashes
Ashes of the first sky

If the city takes our forests
We’ll still rise from what they burn
For a people made of thunder
Always finds its way to return

We are the ashes of the first sky
We are the fire they couldn’t chain
We are the voices they tried to silence
We are the rain before the flame
You can bury all our stories
But the truth will never die
We are the ashes
Ashes of the first sky