Taken

Morning hush, a shadow at our door,

A winter-roughened voice that chilled the floor.

Said everything we love could be no more,

So we held on tighter than before.

If the river rises, we will be the shore.

We bend, we don’t break,

We hold for love’s sake,

Together through the ache.

Hand in hand, heart to heart,

One light in the dark

That nothing can take.

We bend, we don’t break.

Long days of folded papers on the table,

Long nights counting breaths to just stay able.

Whispers over coffee, steady, low,

Trading fear for faith and letting go.

If the road runs ragged, we’ll steady every pace.

Then doors swung wide like dawn across the room,

Small footsteps crossed the threshold, ending gloom.

We gathered every name back into home,

Tears turned sweet to know we weren’t alone.

We bend, we don’t break,

We hold for love’s sake,

Together through the ache.

Hand in hand, heart to heart,

One light in the dark

That nothing can take.

We bend, we don’t break.

Piano soft and low in quiet rooms,

Vows like lanterns chasing out the gloom.

Home is healing—hand in hand we stay,

One with one, together, come what may.