The Glass Between Our Hearts

I knew it was your steps before the doors began to shake … I knew you would find me through the struggle and pain … I stood here in the blood of those who stained our name … And waited to face the one who could make me feel ashamed … My heart has no place under your crown … Too late to be loved, too dangerous to be found … You were the light I watched from enemy ground … And every oath we carried dragged us both down … I wish we had lived another life where I could have held your hand … But the fracture between our houses ran too deep to understand … I inherited a dynasty with all its pride and cost … And by the time I chose your side, too much was already lost … Let our feelings stay apart behind the glass … Where mercy cannot reach me fast … Silent mercy is not what I ask … Let me pay the price and leave it in the past … I do not leave because I’m weak … No spoken words could change a thing … For you, for him, for all we broke … I pay the debt beneath my throat … I gave the order: let the weapons fall asleep … No more children should ever know our grief … Let my brother be the dawn I leave for you to keep … But I am still the dusk you will never reach … That kiss revealed the hope I had carried long before … I only wished you’d see me as something more … Not as forgiven, nor made innocent by tears … Just a girl who loved you through the years … I watched your banners rise across the worlds reclaimed … While grief and duty shaped the woman you became … I was still bound within the House that fed the strife … Too deep in guilt, too far to ever share your life … Let our feelings stay apart behind the glass … Where mercy cannot reach me fast … Silent mercy is not what I ask … Let me pay the price and leave it in the past … I do not leave because I’m weak … No spoken words could change a thing … For you, for him, for all we broke … I pay the debt beneath my throat … Do not forgive me just because I loved you … It doesn’t lessen what I know is still due … Tell him our name was heavy long before his birth … But never let the guilt decide what he is worth … I hope he grows into a gentler man … And learns to rule with an open hand … Keep the echo of our wars out of his veins … Let the blood behind us lay no claim to his reign … But you— You were my impossible prayer … The wound I would not dare to share … The queen before whom I would kneel … I must leave you with this ache, and pray you heal … Let our feelings stay apart behind the glass … Where mercy cannot reach me fast … Silent mercy is not what I ask … Let me pay the price and leave it in the past … I do not leave because I’m weak … No spoken words could change a thing … For you, for him, for all we broke … I pay the debt beneath my throat … The silence settles gently into peace … Finally, you’re here, safe—and our eyes meet … I must leave like this—with the cold steel I hold … May time restore to you what this moment stole …