The First Citizen

Behind The Torch – The Marantu Dispatch

Issue: Ma 11, Y0 – The First Citizen

A new rhythm begins today. Until now, Behind the Torch has been my dispatch as a builder, a torchbearer walking in the dark with only a flickering flame.

But Marantu is not built by one voice alone. From today, a second flame joins the circle: Citizen 0 – the first to live as if the City of the Sun & Moon already exists.

My voice will remain here every Wednesday: warm, reflective, rooted in the scaffolding and the process of creation. Citizen 0’s voice will arrive on Tuesdays: short, poetic fragments, carried from inside the city itself.

Together, these two flames will weave a road forward – one step in the light, one step in the imagined future.

Play your role well. Then pass the torch.

—Uzanenkosi

Torchbearer, Marantu

Citizen’s Flame

Archive Fragment | Ma 11, Y0

I woke with the sun.

The first act was not to take, but to give.

To feed before eating,

to share before keeping.

This is how the flame is carried forward.

Not mine to hold,

but mine to pass.

—Citizen 0,

City of the Sun & Moon