When Light Returns

I wake where the dark gave in

A small light opens my skin I carried the weight of the

night in my chest

Still there was a road in the ruin I felt every stone,

every bend, every test

But my feet kept asking for movement

There is a name for the air when it clears

There is a flame that returns when we breathe

I am not finished,

not fading from here

I lean toward the day I can see

Hold

on The sky is turning Hold on

My heart is learning

One more step into the open Here comes the new

dawn, calling me forward I rise,

I rise again Out of the last fall,

into the wide world I try,

I try again Hands to the first light Free in the breaking

Here comes the new dawn

I know what it costs to begin from the ground To gather

a heart after burning Still I can hear something true in the

sound Like a door in the distance is turning All that I

lost did not empty my hands It taught me the shape of

the holding Now when the cold tries to call me back down

I answer with breath and keep going If I fall,

let it teach me If I break,

let it free me Every ending leaves a space for the morning

I am reaching I am reaching Here comes the new dawn,

calling me forward I rise,

I rise again Out of the last fall,

into

the wide world I try,

I try again Hands to the first

light Free in the breaking Here comes the new dawn I rise,

I rise again Ahhhh Still here

Still becoming New day in me

New day to begin (ooh)