Still She Rises

The Tide Came Home, But Not The Ships
The Hearth Burned Low On Grieving Lips
Beneath The Moon, The Cold Earth Stirred
And Through Her Bones, Its Summons Burned
I Wept Where No Returning Oar Was Heard
I Bled Beneath The Bright Edge Of The Sword
When Sorrow Crossed My Door Without A Sound
It Claimed A Place Beside My Fire And Stayed
Yet Every Dawn, Life Called Me From The Dark
I Rose With All My Wounds Beneath My Heart
Pain Had Not Passed It Tightened Like A Chain
Still She Drew Breath And Faced The World Again
There Is Iron, Iron Running In Her Blood
There is fire rising higher than the flood
She May Bend Beneath The Storm
But She Will Never Break