Eastern Gate

Soon on my streaming platforms! YouTube Music:    / danielux - topic   Apple Music:   / danielux   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/arti... Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/24093197/u SoundCloud:   / danielux-sc   And more! Lyrics: Slipped through the eastern gate before the dawn Left a cracked window and a message drawn The skyline exhaled — relieved or resigned I chose the longer route and left the signs behind The overpass was humming, iron-blue Below, a bonfire someone burned straight through A stranger waved from twenty floors of glass I waved back — tender as the things that cannot last Something breaks open when the speed feels right When forward stops resembling taking flight Beneath the static lives a frequency Older than the face I show to company A pull that doesn't tug — it just remains Like iron resting quietly in the rain The lake at half past four arrived fog-dressed A heron kept its silence, unimpressed Not by the cold, the crossing, or the cost — Content to hold the ground it's never lost The radio dissolved into a name A weightless melody without a frame Each lyric surfaced just before my thought Like something I had carried and forgot All the places I outgrew without a sound All the chapters written only to be drowned Something in departures lifts the gathered rust Leaving was the only lesson I could trust Every exit cracks a door that won't stay closed Every question is a compass rarely posed Not the chart — the hunger in the map Not arrival — just the motion through the gap Beneath the static — breathe Beneath the static — free Beyond mile eighteen, concrete gave to field A narrowing I hadn't once revealed Satellites withdrew, the signals fell I'd never felt so far from parallel Beneath the static — still that frequency Not borrowed anymore — just part of me No weight ahead, no signals left to gain Just the motion and the quiet and the plain Still tuned Still aimed Still here