Every Human Being Is a Civilization

🔔 Abonne-toi ici :    / @voluntas-structure   *Verse 1* At twenty, the table overflowed. The nights felt endless. Faces returned every week. We believed presence was a natural state. No one imagined counting the absences. Then the years moved forward without a sound. One chair stayed empty one evening. Then another. Then another again. Without announcement. Without ceremony. Like a tide withdrawing from the shore grain by grain. *Chorus* Every human being is a civilization. A language. A memory. An invisible landscape. And when someone disappears, It is not a life that goes out. It is an entire world That ceases to exist. *Verse 2* Sometimes I wonder what will die with me. The exact shape of a childhood laugh. The smell of a kitchen after rain. A street that no longer exists. A conversation with no witness left. Libraries without paper. Archives without walls. Entire continents Carried by a single consciousness. *Chorus* Every human being is a civilization. A language. A memory. An invisible landscape. And when someone disappears, It is not a life that goes out. It is an entire world That ceases to exist. *Bridge* Maybe growing up Is not accumulating years. Maybe growing up Is looking around And understanding that time Does not only remove days. It removes witnesses. *Final Chorus* Every human being is a civilization. And we walk among them Like distracted travelers. Without seeing the cathedrals. Without hearing the libraries. Without understanding that behind every gaze There exists an entire universe. Until the day it fades. And its silence Reveals its size. #iamusic