We mapped the stars with trembling hands A fragile truce in shifting sands Each step a price, each breath a vow We did our best—it's over now The weight we bore, the lines we crossed Each soul we named, each life we lost But in the end, we found a light Not pure, but real—a fractured right We didn’t win with open skies We walked through flames, we heard the cries Yet still we stood, though torn apart With shaking limbs and beating hearts We lit the dark with sacrifice Not paradise, but worth the price We couldn’t save the world entire But we held hands inside the fire And though we broke, we didn’t bend We wrote a tale we’d not pretend A song of blood, and yet—desire We held on tight inside the fire I see her eyes when dusk rolls in A gaze that dared to dream of kin She never asked for golden peace Just one soft breath, one moment’s cease And though her voice won’t call again It echoes low in every friend The ones who stayed, the ones who fell We carry both—we wear them well So many roads we couldn't mend But still we reached the bitter end And side by side, we learned to stand Not clean, but brave—with trembling hands We lit the dark with sacrifice Our tears, the ink; our hearts, the dice We couldn’t save the world entire But we found love inside the fire And though the sky refused to bend We shaped a truth we could defend The ash, the scars, the steepest spire We carved our names inside the fire This wasn’t peace, this wasn’t grace But something real we dared to face And in that truth, however flawed We saw the trace of something goded We lit the dark with sacrifice A lullaby of stolen nights We didn’t end it without cries But we held hope beneath the lies And if we fall, let it be known We stood as two, but not alone The past may burn, but we aspire To build anew inside the fire “We held on… hand in the fire.”
