Авторский текст из финального пакета. Сверка с аудио — после загрузки записи.
Before the horn.
Before the dawn.
One hand
above the map.
No banner moved.
No blade was drawn.
The room
had made
its choice.
The candles leaned without a wind.
The council lowered every voice.
No mouth had formed the word for war.
But every silence made the choice.
You traced the border with one hand.
You weighed the harvest, not the dead.
The crown had crossed the field by then,
before the first command was said.
I heard it in the held-back breath.
I heard it in the closing door.
The raven crossed the tower once.
The order
had been born
before.
The crow before the banner.
The wing before the line.
I did not call the battle.
I heard the crown decide.
No blood had touched the roadway.
No drum had marked the time.
The order crossed the border
while it still lived in your mind.
At dawn you dressed the choice in gold.
You gave it drums and sacred names.
The square received a polished lie:
the gods had set the road in flames.
They pointed upward at my wing,
as if the sky had signed the war.
A warning makes a useful beast
when power hides what came before.
You made my feather bear the sign.
You made my shadow carry doom.
But every omen that you cursed
was what you would not name as yours.
The crow before the banner.
The wing before the line.
I did not call the battle.
I heard the crown decide.
You blamed the sky for knowing
what no tongue would yet define.
The order crossed the border
while it still lived in your mind.
A sign is not a summons.
A witness is no blade.
I do not plant the choice in kings.
I hear the choice already made.
No prophecy compelled your hand.
No feather moved your mouth.
You chose the war before the world
had learned to call it out.
The crow before the banner.
The wing before the line.
I did not call the battle.
I heard the crown decide.
You say the crow came first.
The truth had crossed the night.
The banner rose at morning.
The order came before the light.
They say
the crow came first.
No.
The order
was already
in your mouth.