Sirens on the Hillside

Sirens on the hillside, smoke inside my chest

Bootprints over headlines, sleep could never rest

I kept a flag of thunder folded in my fist

Counting all the names the darkness almost kissed

But even in the ruins, a trembling sparrow sings

A note so thin and honest it cuts through everything

War taught me how to hold on

Peace showed me how to breathe

Love wrote the map between our palms

Saying stay, and we'll believe

If night divides the world in two

We'll stitch it back with morning hues

War, then peace, then love at last

A future drawn from shattered glass

Helmets on the fences, echoes in the wells

Grief like iron pages, heavy where it fell

You touched my shoulder softly, named me by my truth

And suddenly the rubble learned the word for proof

Quiet is a kingdom when mercy holds the throne

And every beaten heartbeat remembers it's not alone

War taught me how to hold on

Peace showed me how to breathe

Love wrote the map between our palms

Saying stay, and we'll believe

If night divides the world in two

We'll stitch it back with morning hues

War, then peace, then love at last

A future drawn from shattered glass

Lay your weapons down, name the scars we kept

Wash them in the river where forgiveness slept

Raise a quiet chorus, lanterns in our hands

Light each other's faces till the borders understand

Oh, let the broken fields turn green

Oh, teach the thunder how to dream

War taught us what a life can lose

Peace taught us what a breath can choose

Love teaches how to build and mend

From first hello to world without end

If night returns, we'll meet it bright

After the drums, we name the light

No more flags of anger, only cloth for sails

We'll cross the quiet ocean where a gentler wind prevails