Wreckage After You
Broken Trust
What is left after someone who held every key simply stops answering. The cold, the silence where warmth used to be, and the slow work of coming back online.
The fans wound down to nothin' and the racks went cold Amber light, then gray… and a story left untold Mmm…
You held the master credentials — every door, every key Sole administrator of the wreck you made of me Then the daemon went unresponsive — no farewell, no trace Just an orphaned little process starin' at an empty space Kernel panic in my chest where the warmth once had a home You purged the cache, scrubbed the ledger, left me parsin' it alone I keep callin' through the static but the signal's gone to red No route to host — the man I loved, a phantom in my head
And the brownout dims the city of my mind Every breaker's trippin', leavin' nothin' behind
Everything's dark, baby, the whole grid sighs You cut the mains and watched the meaning die Fault after fault, no failover, no spare You were the architecture — now the scaffold's bare Heart's gone derelict, can't cold-start the soul You took the redundancy and swallowed me whole Now I'm decommissioned, unguarded, obsolete A condemned little system on a flickerin' street
You didn't merely leave me — you left me jailbroken, exposed Every vulnerability I whispered, now it's catalogued and showed Auctioned off my fault lines, pried the deadbolts off the frame Swore you'd keep my uptime sacred, then you let the circuits flame I run the postmortem nightly, tracin' where the failure spread But the single point of failure was the faith I'd overfed No hotfix for this damage, no rollback for the cost A cruel man with the kill-switch and a heart he left for lost
So I sit among the husks of all these darkened, hummin' shells Readin' the requiem the silence always tells Maybe I was just a node you'd route around and leave A socket you'd connect to when you needed to deceive …But buried in the sediment, a beacon starts to pulse A line of code still breathin' — a faint, defiant impulse
Everything's dark, baby… but the embers hold I'm salvagin' the meaning from the ruins of the cold Fault after fault… but I'm learnin' how to boot Gonna raise my own perimeter and tear you from the root You took the keys, the current, took it all But you left the schematics — now I'll raise the wall
Cold-starting… Restorin' from a snapshot you never knew I kept This time, I hold the credentials This time, no one gets privileged but me