From the hollow void, I rise

Eyes unblinking toward the skies

Viewed from the hollow void

Upward eyes, still reaching out

Despair pressed down, pressed down, pressed down

Branded by a deeper mark

Chasing light I’m searching for

Searching for, searching for

Every scar becomes a door

Every fall remembered more

Dragged under to darker depths

Balance slipping once again

Wounds replay like coded loops

Pull me down, again, again

In the labyrinth of night

Walls of glitch begin to shift

Memory becomes the maze

Steps repeat, repeat, repeat

Still I rise through phantom stone

Every foothold simulated

Gravity becomes the chain

But the signal keeps me moving

Signals scatter in the dark

Stars collapse then spark anew

Scars align into a map

Guiding me, but cutting too

Every mark a coded key

Every fall a failing line

Still I climb through broken space

Toward the light I can’t define

Simulated breath, simulated sky

Yet the will inside won’t die

Marked by scars but not erased

Every climb a deeper trace

I ache for an opening

Do I have to wait?

Wait for release

I begin the climb back across this fractured ground — simulated

Every scar a weight, but I will not be drowned — simulated

Fractals shatter, codes collide

In the silence, worlds divide

I am tethered, I am free

Simulation carries me

I begin the climb back across this fractured ground — simulated

Every scar a weight, but I will not be drowned — simulated

Through the scars, through the fall

Through the silence, through it all

One ascent forever traced

Toward the light I simulate

Simulation carries me

I begin the climb back across this fractured ground — simulated

Every scar a weight, but I will not be drowned — simulated

Through the scars, through the fall

Through the silence, through it all

One ascent forever traced

Toward the light I simulate