Through the Quiet Fire

I walked through seasons where the color left the sky

Every step a question, every breath a quiet why

The weight of what was broken settled deep inside my chest

I learned to carry silence when the world refused to rest

Night after night the same horizon stayed the same

Until a single spark of something softer spoke my name

And in the stillness something starts to rise

A thread of light beneath the closed eyes

I feel the edges of the darkness start to thin

A door I thought was sealed begins to open from within

I rise through the quiet fire

I leave the long night behind

The pain becomes the pathway

The hope becomes the light

I open every window

I let the morning in

From the depth of what I carried

A new beginning can begin

The scars I used to hide now catch a different kind of light

What once felt like an ending slowly opens into flight

I stop to watch the morning wash the gray from every stone

And realize the road was never meant to walk alone

Every tear I thought was wasted found a purpose on the way

They cleared the path that brings me to this brighter, wider day

And in the stillness something starts to rise

A thread of light beneath the closed eyes

I feel the edges of the darkness start to thin

A door I thought was sealed begins to open from within

I rise through the quiet fire

I leave the long night behind

The pain becomes the pathway

The hope becomes the light

I open every window

I let the morning in

From the depth of what I carried

A new beginning can begin

All the years I thought were lost

Were only lessons, never cost

The fire that once burned me low

Is now the light that lets me go

I stand where sorrow used to stay

And watch it finally fade away

I rise through the quiet fire

I leave the long night behind

The pain becomes the pathway

The hope becomes the light

I open every window

I let the morning in

From the depth of what I carried

A new beginning can begin

I rise...

A new beginning…

The light remains…