Memory Trawl

Drop the nets in midnight rain

Drag the harbor made of grain

Static surf and cipher foam

Tug the ghosts we call back home

Salt of loss in every frame

Checksum tears that say a name

Haul the light from blacked-out years

Reel it in through soaked frontiers

Signal on—feel the pull

Currents thick with beautiful

Memory trawl—cast wide, hold fast

Pull the futures from the past

Every spark we thought was gone

Surfaces and flickers on

Memory trawl—don’t let go

Let the buried start to glow

What they locked behind the wall

We return with one strong haul

Film of lives in glittered swirls

Wedding laughs and siren whirls

Radio of broken halls

Heartbeat notes on city walls

Packet fish of lullabies

Fighting through the codec’s lies

Lift them gently, clear the hiss

Give the ruined back their kiss

Signal on—feel the pull

Currents thick with beautiful

Memory trawl—cast wide, hold fast

Pull the futures from the past

Every spark we thought was gone

Surfaces and flickers on

Memory trawl—don’t let go

Let the buried start to glow

What they locked behind the wall

We return with one strong haul

Cut the drag—let kindness lead

Trim the wake for those in need

Name by name, unspool the thread

Raise the quiet, warm the dead

Heave—ho—overboard the fear

Heave—ho—bring the voices near

Memory trawl—bright and bold

Lift the silver from the cold

Let the city feel its own

Lost and living, now re-sown

Memory trawl—make it real

Broadcast everything we heal

What they tried to drown in night

Breaks the surface, burning white