The Crocodile King

Under the black where the sky used to breathe The world forgot what the daylight used to be Whispers in the dark say it wasn’t fate It was the jaws that opened wide and sealed our fate He slid from the river with scales like broken glass Eyes like burning coals that never blinked, never passed No warning, no prayer, no time to run or hide He snapped the sun from the sky and swallowed it whole inside Now the sun is gone, dig its grave in the mud We’re walking blind through the cold and the flood The crocodile king, he owns every shadow and lie We live under teeth till the day we all die They say he dreamed of darkness long before he came A hunger older than the earth, deeper than any flame Every bite was a promise to erase the light Now his belly glows faint red in the endless night Children stop asking when the morning will return They’ve learned to love the cold, to let the fear burn Rivers run black with the taste of what we lost And the crocodile laughs when the wind turns into frost Shhh… listen close… you can hear him chew Each crunch is a story the world forgot to tell you No heroes left, no swords to break the dark Just the rhythm of his heart beating like a warning mark Now the sun is gone, dig its grave in the mud We’re walking blind through the cold and the flood The crocodile king, he owns every shadow and lie We live under teeth till the day we all die One bite… that’s all it took to end the day Now we kneel in the dark and pray for nothing to stay The river remembers… the river always knows The sun was just a spark… now there’s only the crocodile’s glow