New Roads Ahead

Mm. I've crossed through nights that had no horizon, where breath grew

thin and courage frayed. I held my prayers like quiet lanterns,

hoping their glow would kiss the shade. But in the stillness after trembling,

a holy echo brushed my chest. Child, I'm the one who walks beside

you. There are new roads, go on and step.

So I inhale your dawn again, letting old shadows lose their thread. Your whisper shapes

my forward path, where the wounded heart is led. New roads ahead. You open worlds

I've never known. New roads ahead. You carve a way where none have grown.