Lyric

Like the mist at dawn

Life fades away in fragility

A human lifetime

What we now call the hundred year era

Around its halfway point

Is but a whisper

In the halls of heaven

We move through these breakable days

As if walking inside a dream

When I reached

Around the midpoint of a century long life

Something within me grew still

The noise fell away

And in that silence

I finally began to listen

To why I had been placed here

It was not a voice from the sky

But a quiet certainty resting in my chest

A path that had already been

Beneath my feet

Now, each morning

I rise with steady hands

I do what I can

No more

No less

How long this body

Will carry me, I do not know

Still, I climb

One unseen step

At a time

Looking back

Joy and sorrow

Stand side by side

Like light and shadow

Along the edge of dusk

Without darkness

I would never have seen the stars

And somehow

This very moment

Now

Shines the brightest

Where there was once confusion

Gratitude now overflows

Every person I met

Every loss

Every gift

All of it

Shaped this journey

Life becomes beautiful

With a single shift of the heart

I do not know

How many steps remain

Yet quietly

Steadily

I keep walking

Toward the waiting light