Wasn't a storm, wasn't a single night
Just a slow lean away from the light
Small surrenders, one by one
Till I didn't recognize what I'd become
Midway through the life I thought I knew
I looked up and the path had come unwound
Not the man I'd promised to the years
Just a dark wood and the echo of my fears
And the ground thinned
And the light broke low
Didn't fall all at once
Just a slow below
Now we're icebound
In the quiet of the thing I broke
Every reaching word between us
Turns to smoke
Built this cold around us
Stone on stone
Standing at the edge
Of everything I've thrown
Caught in a wind I never named
Told the mirror I wasn't one to blame
But the storm don't hold your reasons dear
It just moves through and leaves the damage here
Wore the lie like a familiar coat
Smiled across the table, swallowed whole
The liars get frozen in the deep
For the lives they lived while someone else's trust was asleep
And the ground thinned
And the light broke low
Didn't fall all at once
Just a slow below
Now we're icebound
In the quiet of the thing I broke
Every reaching word between us
Turns to smoke
Built this cold around us
Stone on stone
Standing at the edge
Of everything I've thrown
No passage skips the fire
No grace that sidesteps pain
Can't arrive at any light
Without the walking through the flames
So I'll carry every layer down
Every weighted thing I've done
Not to purchase your forgiveness
Just to bring the truth into the sun
Not asking you to meet me
Where this climb might finally end
Only asking for the grace
To show you who I'm becoming again
Even Dante needed someone
Willing just to walk him through
Maybe that's the ask that breaks me most
A hand to hold while reckoning comes due
We don't have to stay icebound
In the silence of the thing I broke
There's a warmth on the other side
Of all this smoke
Can't undo the cold I laid down
I know what it cost
But I'll climb every circle
Back to what I almost lost
Back to what I almost lost
Selva oscura...
Midway through...
Found the dark wood...
Found my way...
Found my way...