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“I rise”

lyrics/spoken word from music album “RAGANA” by LIHLA (2026 release)

It’s me

I’ve been watching, listening.

Every shiver, every caress that you pulled away from

every shadow you shrank from

every breath that you took from my mouth.

The words that you gilded for gain

every gift you marked in your name

You were flinching at shadows you thought were spells of mine

but they were merely reflections of your own distorted, hand-made world.

When you cast sensuality as sin

and creation as design –

You took my skin and made it dirty.

turned intimacy serpentine

You didn’t just forget me,

you buried me under the rubble of false kingdoms.

But you found my hair on your pillow didn’t you?

like whips of smoke, the shivering ground beneath your feet,

of kingdoms falling to ash.

You wrote my stories of monster and demon

(banshee fury harpy and snake

manipulator, seducer, medusa)

But when you sleep who walks by moonlight?

Barefoot and tender, broken bones-

Mistress of the fates.

I almost believed that I was what you created

I almost believed I was what you wrote

I almost believed you.

But I see,

and I listen,

About the Author

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and storyteller LIHLA (Lih-Qun Wong) combines a vast instrumental skillset of piano, cello, electronics, and spoken word, to craft intensely immersive aural-hallucinatory worlds of intricately shifting landscapes.

Her work explores the diaspora of time and space, the meeting place between memory and longing. Her explorational vocal and poetry textures invoke and echo the ancient, the feminine, and the otherworldly. Her voice guides us, weaving through electronics and field recordings of the ‘real world‘ to set the path for a poetic and deeply haunting journey through the internal psyche that is truly transportive and escapist.

@lihlalih