Only the wise 
Can rise 
And maybe I’m overshooting the mark 
But it feels like I’m firing in the dark
At a target that keeps on moving
When you fight, everyone is losing
Because every time we take aim
We are hitting our own name
In another shape and form
And a body warm
Has a heart that beats
With the same heat
That pumps our own 
It takes the dark for the night you’ve known 
To be thrown into day
And if there was any other way
To appreciate candlelight
He would have told us, right? 
But the brutality ensues
As the people pay their dues
Over and over again
And most of it is men
Straining to find a space to place
The parts of themselves they’ve felt love deface
And I know it’s abhorrent 
And there’s nothing that could warrant
This kind of storm
And everyone who dies was once born
Into their own skin
Even the Word, even Him
And there’s something they cannot take
Because Love does not forsake
All you’ve held in hands 
Whether fairy lights or metal bands 
We all have a place in the sea
And it’s the current moving me
To issue a decree
And if it must begin with me
I’ll let the magnet go
And the volume low
Ushers in a new dawn
One where we’ve lost what’s gone
Only to remain
The valley in the shadow of death and pain
Gives way to a New Earth
You wouldn’t know peace of you hadn’t felt the hurt