Walls of despair close in Yet the heart refuses silence Among ashes and broken names A spark insists on purpose Not pleasure, not power But a question carved in pain Why endure another dawn If not to keep what holds meaning? Chains cannot claim the soul Nor hunger erase the will In the shadow of cruelty A choice still survives To suffer with dignity To bear the fire without breaking To find in every wound The seed of becoming Faces vanish into the void But the gaze holds memory A freedom no tyrant steals The right to choose one’s stance Even when stripped of all Meaning whispers through the silence And in the weight of the night Purpose becomes salvation To suffer with dignity To bear the fire without breaking To find in every wound The seed of becoming To suffer with dignity To bear the fire without breaking To find in every wound The seed of becoming When the world collapses Meaning is not destroyed It rises, quiet yet unshaken A vow carried within