I wake up to a knock on my door

The place in my dreams - “I've been here before”

Shatters

All that remains

Is lost and afraid in a maze with no name

This maze of darkness so thick I can feel it encroaching

I reach for the switch to the light

I start groping

Flailing my hands

But I soon understand

No switches exist that can light up this land

The darkness is just hard but it's just a facade

This darkness is just hard but it's just a facade

Every fragment craves connection

Every death is resurrection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each breath is redemption

The darkness is just hard but it's just a facade

A mask that reminds us who we are

When our hearts are open

Freed by the urgent emotions

Fear, wonder accompany discovery

The land of my ancestors pulled out from under me

Paradigm unrecognizably utterly shifted

I tried to resist it

Once I was gifted a gift so explicitly pure

Universally sought and translated

Every language and people related

Entire religions constructed their edifice

While the foundation

Stared from the precipice of exile

Destruction of homeland and certainty

Now we all wonder alone

In a burning sea of darkness

So thick we forgot what we lost

Our eyes acclimatize

But our souls know the cost

Every fragment craves connection

Every death is resurrection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each breath is redemption

My hand gropes for the switch

But where is it?

No mere electricity

Circuits and physics alone

Could never replace to be home

Breathing

Free and connected

Roots in the core of the earth

Light reflected and limitless

States of existence so infinite

Language dissolves in attempting to imprison them

Listen

Every fragment craves connection

Every death is resurrection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each breath is redemption

Every fragment craves connection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each death is resurrection

Each breath is redemption

Listen intently

Maybe detecting an echo

Our ears will relearn what our soul can't forget so we practice

Even in hiding

The darker the darkness

The brighter the shining appears

And we were brought to be here

To learn to face to love our fears

To strengthen life by sending light

To realms consumed by endless night

To shatter shells protecting hearts from beating

Sparks were made for seeking

Every fragment craves connection

Every death is resurrection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each breath is redemption

Every fragment craves connection

Every exile brings a lesson

Each death is resurrection

Each breath is redemption