For Us, By Us

My body is the vessel

Stressed beyond it’s threshold

All we had to care for when we fled our burning temples

I’ve been hard on mine

I’m tryna teach my mind how to be gentle

I got scars that shine

Weight I carry could make me resentful

But this weight I carry carried all my hopes and held my mental

This weight I carry carried me in love and I am thankful

This weight I got married in is worth cherishing

We age different

Made it through apocalyptic scenes

Live to honor all of our lost friends and family

It isn’t easy, but there’s a beauty in surviving this

I see the reason every time I see our kids

And it’s an act of trust to love ourselves the way they love us

The way we love them, we can not lose touch

To build a safe place for them, we need a safe place for us

It’s a home that’s more than home, more than close ones you know

A safe place to grow

Heal our hearts and ease our souls

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

The child in me

Still feels it all

We ran from bombs and fires and guns

From a dream we could not touch

Now I'm grown

With babies of my own

I heal myself so I become

A home to the ones we love

From the ashes of our homes

Battles long, will it ever pass?

For safety for our own, must reborn

I heard Phoenix laugh

Felt it in my bones

Flesh gets old while my fingers grasp

A feather made of embers

In your winter, remember it can’t last

That is if you grow

We escaped from places made our own

And now my tongue is native to a language safe has never known

I treasure those

Who strain to make those feathers glow

But what I’m severed from makes me afraid to feel we’re ever close

Forever closed

The numb felt like the love the world would never show

And in my numb became the gun that pieces homes

Or keeps from whole

By putting holes in peace we prayed

Preyed by beasts with fangs

Who make you beast who scream in pain

And thus we burn the homes we used to dream to make

I dream to take that fire and make a thing of grace

To ease the pain our parents couldn't even name

To increase our gains

We need the weight

Don't need to wait

To keep our home from the ashes

We must be the safe

I earn/urn my ashes by the things I face

From the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes

A safe place for us, from the ashes of our homes