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Shadows We Inherit

Nicholas Kyle Edwards

Dec 29, 2024

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Shadows We Inherit

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They built this kingdom on the backs of whispers,

calling it progress,

but the bricks crumble beneath their own making.

What is peace but a polished mask for chaos?

What is wealth but an altar of sand?

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The people breathe in gilded air,

perfumed with promises of something more,

while the hillside cradles their glamour homes.

Above them, towers of glass glitter

with the silence of the untouchable.

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A boy runs,

his shadow stretching behind him

as he chases something he can't name.

Not wealth, not time, but a version of himself

that never learned how to fall.

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The world, stitched together with threads of deceit,

tightens its grip on his skin.

Each word, each touch,

a mark pressed into his soul

by hands he never asked for.

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He watches the children play in the dirt,

their laughter cutting through the dark.

They don't know what waits for them.

They don't know the weight of tomorrow.

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His hands tremble,

not with rage, but resignation.

Tell me,

is there freedom in this inheritance of shadows?

What do you believe?

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Table of Contents

#1 Ashes and Reverie

#2 Strings of Fate

#3 Shadows of Opposition

#5 Strings of Ignorance

#6 Shadows We Inherit

#7 Restless Light

#8 The Hollow Gaze

#9 The Echo of Stars

#10 Coastline Reverie

#11 The Passage of Time

#12 Chasing Empty Stars

#13 The Water Cycle

#14 The Unseen Creation

#15 Caught in the Net

#16 Tide of the Hollow

#17 The Roar Between Waves

#18 Cloth of Illusion

#19 First Love, Sand

#20 Eternal Embrace

#21 The Bargain

#22 Where the Stars Glint

#23 Morning Reverie

#24 The Price of Power

#25 Learning to Love

#26 In the Dark