Before the books. Before the platform. Before anyone was watching.

The Silent Count is the journal that was being written in the dark while the map was being drawn.

Three movements. Thirteen poems. One soul walking from formation through darkness to the exit.

Movement One — Formation. The warrior with no home. The ones you lose along the way. The slave running from chains that are no longer steel — they are fear and greed.

Movement Two — The Dark. Fourteen hours. A headlamp. A podcast about Bitcoin. No one watching. No one clapping. Just the count. Just the accumulation. Just the man who has to become who he needs to be before he reaches the light.

Movement Three — The Exit. Where are you going now. The seeing and the unseeing. And the war that is always on its way.

With my 12 words I escape. I am free from the smoke, I am free from the fire. 12 words was all it takes.

The Modern Sovereign Trilogy told you how to leave. The Silent Count shows you who left.

A Sovereign Press Poetry Collection — S. A. B.

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