When the Dawn Won’t Come

Look around and carve these faces into memory,

Every scar’s a chapter in our history.

The sky has already chosen how this ends,

But we were never measured by the odds we faced.

Hear the thunder rolling through the valley floor,

Hear our children calling from a distant shore.

If this is where our final breath is drawn,

Then let it be the breath that carries hope.

No banners waiting…

No songs to sing…

No promise that tomorrow knows our names.

But if the darkness writes the final page,

We’ll make it tremble all the same.

So raise your voice into the fire!

Stand like mountains, never tire!

If we fall, then let us fall as one,

Like stars that burn before they’re gone.

No one leaves this battlefield alive,

But because we stand… our world survives.

We are the wall they’ll never see,

The cost of someone else’s peace.

Steel will break and flesh will surely fail,

Even giants disappear beneath the hail.

But fear is only loud until you move,

One more step is all that courage ever knew.

Think of every hand you’ll never hold again,

Every laugh carried softly on the wind.

They’re the reason every heartbeat still remains,

The reason we can never turn away.

When history searches through the ash,

It won’t count victories or crowns.

It will remember those who stood,

When every reason said “stand down.”

Let our names be carried by the wind,

Not because we lived forever…

But because for one impossible hour,

We refused to surrender.

Raise your voice into the fire!

Let your courage climb still higher!

If this is where our story ends,

We’ll write it standing with our friends.

The sun may never rise for us,

But it will rise because of us.

So take one breath… then one more stride…

And meet eternity with pride.

No retreat.

No regret.

No tomorrow left to borrow.

Only this moment.

Only this stand.

Until the world remembers…

We were here.