This Body, This Road

This Body, This Road (Version 4) Verse 1 I’ve walked this road with open hands Through joy that broke and pain that sang My body bore the weight of time Its song survives in shifting form Verse 2 I once was seen through longing eyes A light once cast, now gently fades As mirrors show a softer face Where youth once danced, now lines embrace Chorus Oh, this body—how it bore The storms, the birth, the closing door It held the fire, it held the grace When beauty blurred and doubt took space It’s hard to bless what grief still shakes To hold the light in all that breaks Verse 3 The maiden bloomed in morning light The mother watched her child take flight Now silence folds around the flame The crone emerges, not the same Bridge Invisible, or worse—disdained A beauty lost, a flame contained But I am more than what mirrors show I am the dusk, the deep, the glow Chorus (reprise) Yes, this body—how it stayed Through every loss, through every blade It held the child, the song, the scar It is my temple, carved by time It’s hard to bless what grief still shakes To hold the light in all that breaks Outro So here I stand, not young, not gone A breath of light in borrowed form Grateful for this winding road Grateful for this heart that knows