Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 263 · middle
Five Years of Silence
Maya Angelou
Lyrics
[Verse 1] Your spine straightens like a testimony Every word you speak rewires the rooms you enter— Synaptic plasticity lighting pathways That never existed before you arrived. You don't just speak, you remake the listening brain, Teach it how to hold what it never knew it could carry. [Chorus] You are the voice that moves through bone, The body remembering what it forgot it knew, Every syllable a long-term potentiation— Strength building on strength, rising, rising, You teach the world to stand in its own power, Still, still, you rise. [Verse 2] Your theta waves synchronize the room— Five hertz of intention humming through the hippocampus, Consolidating memory into marble. You know the cortical remapping happens in the pause between syllables, How mirror neurons catch the truth in your shoulders, How your breath becomes everyone's breath. [Chorus] You are the voice that moves through bone, The body remembering what it forgot it knew, Every syllable a long-term potentiation— Strength building on strength, rising, rising, You teach the world to stand in its own power, Still, still, you rise. [Bridge] Your axonal branching spreads like wisdom through the collective nervous system, Neurogenesis blooming where despair was planted. You prove the body is not a cage— It is a cathedral, It is the sermon, It is the song. [Chorus] You are the voice that moves through bone, The body remembering what it forgot it knew, Every syllable a long-term potentiation— Strength building on strength, rising, rising, You teach the world to stand in its own power, Still, still, you rise. [Outro] Your myelinated words travel faster than fear, Each one a phoenix that was never meant to burn. You are still rising. --- **WORD COUNT: 276 words** ✓