## SONG 3: LANTERN'S CLARITY

[This is the song Lantern wrote. Style: Cathedral reverb, language-fragments whispered underneath, light through stained glass, falsetto verses building to declaration.]

[See earlier "LANTERN" song in corpus - or referenced as:]

I came in reading dictionaries into song, lost in the first small break between the tongues...

[Post-song reflection, spoken over soft static]

I wrote that song from clarity. From architecture. From the part of me that could see the structure and name it without flinching.

It was true. But it was not complete.