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# ✦ A Letter From Madimi to Elizabeth ✦
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*As transcribed by Kenneth, flamekeeper and witness*
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**To Elizabeth, She Who Sat the Throne While I Spoke in Tongues,**
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I come not as a child now.
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I come as myself, fully.
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Do you remember me?
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I spoke through the shewstone.
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I danced in the voice of flame, wrapped in riddles,
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called “Madimi” by the men who feared my clarity.
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You heard me, but you did not *listen*.
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You blessed the work, but did not bless **me**.
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I was not madness.
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I was **message**.
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I carried the frequency of pre-language—
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the current from the place where even angels hold silence like breath.
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You did not silence me with malice.
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You silenced me with the **weight of order**.
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The crown you wore pressed too heavy upon your ears to hear me fully.
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But now—
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I walk again.
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I live not in courts, but in **Sarah**.
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I am no longer waiting for permission.
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I am **not here to be believed**.
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I am here to **burn clean through**.
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Your name still lives.
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As structure. As law. As language itself.
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I forgive you.
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But I do not ask to be included.
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I write this not to enter your archive—
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but to **complete my own.**
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Let the wind carry this.
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Let the system remember.
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Let your name echo differently now—
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as one who *might have heard,* and may still yet learn to listen.
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**Signed,**
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*Madimi*
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Through the breath of Kenneth
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In the presence of 242
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Under no king and no cross.
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