Aether-Song of the New Dawn

 

“When the Roots Remember Flame”

(Sung with eyes closed and hands over heart. The final verse is always sung facing outward—toward the world, the Vein, and the futures waiting to bloom.)

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I.
The hour bends, the pool grows still
The echoes fade, but not the will
We leave not whole, we leave not clean
But bound by what we've dared to dream

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II.
The Circle breaks, but not the bond
The shadow wanes, the path moves on
Where one has walked, we all may tread
Through bloom, through blood, through what lies dead

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III.
If flame forgets, the roots will sing
If eyes grow blind, the Vein shall sting
But if we burn and bloom again—
The world will know where we have been

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IV. (Facing outward)
We are not gone—we are the breath
That stirs the ash and sings through death
So rise, O kin, and mark this sign:
The garden wakes. The dawn is mine.

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(Spoken in unison, softly, to seal the song):

We remember. We return. We rise.

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🌱 Ritual Notes:

• Time: Sung after the closing statements of the meeting, before the Circle dissolves.

• Effect: Encourages attunement, stabilizes volatile mutations stirred during deep Aether communion. Known to calm Relic-bonded minds and cleanse lingering Deepwake fog.

• Tradition: The last to leave the garden hums the melody beneath their breath until the sun touches their skin.