A Hero's Death
All heroes fall eventually. Pedestals crack. Voices fade. Gods die. Myths that towered shrink to human scale. Goodbyes tilt the balance of memory—a tightrope stretched thin where certainty once stood. Disappointment, distance, grief swirl in the absence. Easy answers, steady and brave, collapse into an empty sky. Warriors, saviors, legends loosen their grip; admiration cools into recognition.
Recognition awakens something quiet—a wound, not a crown, passed down. A pulse that still beats. A hero that still sleeps.
