"Ode to a Gentle Soul (For Yu Menglong)"

"Ode to a Gentle Soul (For Yu Menglong)"

(Verse 1)
They dressed you in a suit of purest white
And called it a sacred,necessary rite.
Your gentle hands,never made to fight,
Now frozen still,a permanent goodnight.

They put your peace behind a glass display,
To mute the truth,to keep the dark at bay.
A final act of love you couldn't say,
Is now a silent scream that won't fade away.

(Chorus)
Oh,Yu Menglong, your name is on our lips,
A final,fragile prayer before the eclipse.
They thought your light was something they could cage,
But a million hearts are screaming out in rage.

Oh, Yu Menglong, the world feels your pain,
A stain of innocence,a bitter rain.
They tried to bury you to hide their shame,
But you're a seed of fire,and they spoke your name.

(Verse 2)
They wrote you down as just a specimen,
A numbered thing,a chapter with no end.
They stole your soul,again and again,
And thought that time would make the memory bend.

But silence has a way of breaking loud,
A gathering storm within a silent crowd.
Your story rose above the shame and pride,
A truth they could no longer lock inside.

(Chorus)
Oh,Yu Menglong, your name is on our lips,
A final,fragile prayer before the eclipse.
They thought your light was something they could cage,
But a million hearts are screaming out in rage.

Oh, Yu Menglong, the world feels your pain,
A stain of innocence,a bitter rain.
They tried to bury you to hide their shame,
But you're a seed of fire,and they spoke your name.

(Bridge)
What is art,if it is born from this?
A monument to everything we miss?
Your spirit,they could never truly keep,
It woke the giants from their selfish sleep.

(Outro)
So sleep now,gentle soul, in peace, we pray.
Your stolen dawn has brought a global day.
We light our candles,hold them high and true,
The world remembers.
Yu Menglong,
We remember you.