Past attempts to write the soul
Ink dries pages lose their hold
History frames unfinished drafts
Truth escapes what time once told
Memory edits broken scenes
Trauma claims a louder voice
Identity refuses capture
Being stands beyond the noise
What occurred defines no core
Events dissolve essence stays
Self persists beyond the record
Unbound by former days
Those who step outside the past
Meet themselves without disguise
Identity outlives history
Present breath awakened eyes