

Call again
So I placed my hands
Against the surface
And gave the silence
Everything I had
My voice went down without a sound Through every room beneath the
ground It crossed the water,
crossed the years And found the self still trapped in fear
Then every whisper answered me Not from ahead,
but memory The voice that pulled me through the night Was mine—from
somewhere past the light I was the question
I was the call I was the hand That caught my fall
I became the echo
The voice I was searching for I went down lost and hollow
I came back carrying more I became the echo
Now I know what called before When another voice falls through the
dark I will answer from the core I became I became The
voice I was searching for I saw the circle closing slow The
hand above, the hand below The part that ran,
the part that stayed Were always reaching through the waves
The deep was never just a grave It held the pieces I
couldn’t save It broke my shape,
returned my name And taught the dark itself could change
I was the question
I was the call I was the hand That caught my fall
I became the echo
The voice I was searching for I went down lost and hollow
I came back carrying more I became the echo
Now I know what called before When another voice falls through the
dark I will answer from the core I became I became The
voice I was searching for
I was the breath before the sinking I was the silence afterward
I was the half that kept on living
I was the half that kept the hurt
I was the water remembering I was the last remaining light I
was the shadow reaching upward I was both hands holding tight
Call—I will hear you
Fall—I will find you
Sink—I will follow
Break—I’ll remind you
Your grief has a language Your darkness has depth
You are more than the pieces Survival forgets
We became the echo
The voices we searched for
We went down lost and hollow We came back carrying more We
became the echo
Rising from the ocean floor When another voice falls through the dark
We will answer from the core
We became We became The voices we searched for The water became
still
The mirror became sky
And for the first time
I heard my whole voice If you ever lose your way
Call once into the dark These are the echoes of the deep
And I will answer back