Through the Dark Restrung

The very day you were born, your light shone bold in the dark The doctor said you had a hole in your heart Just knew you were making room for a whole lot of heart And loved you from that day until your soul would depart You took your first breath upon my chest I built you a good nest before I left It wasn't that I never loved your mother But two happy homes are better than one that suffered Every regret in this life that I made Have been tempered by the strength in your eyes everyday I know you never said that you'd like me to stay Still I'm sorry I neglected you while I was away You were eight when we headed to casualty And no child should face their death or mortality You taught me patience, strength and morality And I'd burden this weight instead of you happily That night, you asked if you'd die from your sickness And why had it chosen your life out of millions You filled me with a pride I was missing Cause grown men cry they lack your type of resilience Only when it's dark are the stars so bright For your fight you're gonna harbour these scars for life But you a brave little soul, came in the cold Like a fighter hope you find that same flame when you're old Fall asleep And lay with me We'll search the night for shooting stars If they can't take Away your pain I'll take your hand, walk through the dark The dark Through the dark I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed Know this, your breath at the cost of my breath I'd forego this life, let you honour my death If you could know what it's like to live long and regret So you can fight, you can shove, you can bleed and hurt You can cry, you can love, learn your creed or worth Earn your stripes, act dumb, cut your teeth or worse Or take a wife to become your sky, sea and earth But if these are things that you never see With no god, just me, here to set you free And most others won't understand the hell in which you've been in Till they've wrestled with a demon But take heart, to be brave we first need fear That same heart that's seen pain yet persevered Will serve you, I know this world is, of course, unfair And hurt you, but these virtues are yours to bear I named you lionhearted the day you're born They say the night is darkest before the dawn I'll take your hand upon this path, if you can light a spark Then we can find some calm in a raging storm Ain't nothing left to scare you, see? So we can live, laugh and cherish every breath we breathe And no matter where you go know I'll never leave 'Cause even when we're gone we're living in a memory, so live on Fall asleep And lay with me We'll search the night for shooting stars If they can't take Away your pain I'll take your hand, walk through the dark Fall asleep And lay with me We'll search the night for shooting stars If they can't take Away your pain I'll take your hand, walk through the dark The dark Through the dark And I'm sorry that I can't take your pain, or answer why We'll lay awake through darker skies I say your name, you cast a light You're a flame on a starless night And I didn't know I was lost till you found me Didn't know I was locked here without keys But we can walk across all these boundaries You and me, nothing here to stop you, you're now free So I wrote this to give you hope For every good thing in life you'll live to know They say cancers survivors are gifted though Let me know if that isn't so