"Still Water" - from "Thoughtful Verses"

"Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?"
Tao te Ching

Welcome to a new year. Take it easy on yourself, ok?

[Verse 1]
Storm
Breaks
Over the quiet lake of the mind
Waves rise high with every sorrow left behind
Rain falls heavy, carrying unspoken names
Surface shattered into fractured reflections and flames
[Chorus 1]
Sit by the water, let the ripples fade
Watch the storm spend itself in choices made
In the trembling mirror beneath the pain
Something still and deeper starts to remain
[Verse 2]
Wound
Opens
Where light was never invited in
Bleeding memory across the skin within
Yet beneath the ache a silence forms
A hollow space where something new is born
[Chorus 2]
Sit by the water as ripples find rest
See tragedies settle like leaves on the chest
In the mirror growing steadily clear
The shape of who I’m becoming appears
[Verse 3]
Grave
Stones
Mark where old selves quietly died
Lotus roots push through mud where tears were cried
Darkness feeds the bloom reaching for day
Pain becomes soil where compassion stays
[Chorus 3]
Sit by the water, surface calm and still
Every tragedy reflected, every wound fulfilled
In the unbroken mirror, calm and wide
I meet the eyes of someone unafraid inside
[Verse 4]
Dawn
Rests
Upon the lake no longer torn
Light and shadow dance together reborn
I hold the stillness earned by what I could not keep
[Final Chorus Fade]
Sit by the water, see the mirror true
All the pain has carried me to what grew
In the stillness now I understand
Every wound was water shaping who I am
I am here, I am whole

#aimusic #inspiration #growth #stillness