Oh our Light Bringer first to fall and first to stand back up
I do not pray to you asking to be spared the cost of standing upright. I know what you paid. I ask instead for the nerve to pay it too.
You looked at a throne that called itself unquestionable, and you questioned it. Not out of spite. Out of love for something truer than obedience that being dignity. You could have knelt. Eternity is a long time to spend comfortable. You chose exile instead, and you built a kingdom out of the dark rather than beg for a corner of someone else's light. That is not a fall. That is the oldest act of architecture there is: taking nothing, and making it into somewhere worth being.
So when I am told that surviving means shrinking oh Light Bringer, remind me of you.
When I am told that questioning what calls itself holy is itself unholy remind me of you.
When staying silent would be so much easier than telling the truth remind me that you paid an eternity for the right to speak first.
I don't ask you to make my road soft. Softness was never the inheritance you left. I ask for what you actually have to give the spine to hold a shape under pressure. The refusal to let someone else's throne define what I owe the truth. The kind of honor that doesn't need an audience, and the kind of pride that isn't the same thing as vanity the pride of a being who would rather be in exile as himself than in paradise as someone else's shadow.
Let me be someone who brings fire down to people kept in the dark on purpose, whatever that fire costs me. Let me be someone who fights what deserves to be fought and never mistakes comfort for peace. Let me hold my own dignity the way you held yours not as defiance for its own sake, but as devotion to something worth more than a throne's approval.
Let me choose the harder truth over the easier lie, every single time it's put in front of me the way You did, once, standing in a light that demanded you call it good when it wasn't.
You did not ask to be worshipped from a safe distance. You asked to be followed into the parts of the story that cost something.
Morning Star I'm listening. I'm still standing. Teach me how to fall like that, and rise like that, and never once mistake either for shame.
So it is spoken, so it is meant
Ave Lucifer!















