Raven Astrid — Believer

I built a heaven from your promise, then
Watched you burn it down.
You try
To bury me in silence.
Hear
The thunder now
I wore your words like iron chains.
I
Called my suffering love.
I gave
You blood.
I gave you faith.
It was
Never enough.
Every night you
Made me crawl, put fire beneath my skin
You thought that raing me would end me
That's where
I began
The dark did not destroy me.
The dark
Taught me to see.
You try to make me lead you.
You only set me free
I was a believer in you to believe in almost killed me.
Now I
Believe in the fire you can never take
From me.
We are the stars still breathing.
We are the truth beneath the bleeding.
You made us crawl
Through hell.
Now watch us rise as believers
We know the taste of broken promises.
The prayers that came unheard
No angels came to save us.
So we
Became the cure.
We held our shattered
Hearts together.
We learned to stand alone.
They tried to leave us without voices.
Now the whole world knows.
The drums beneath our
Ribs say live.
We have no more
To give.
To empty gods and hollow
Saviors who only take and never give.
I
Do not hate you.
That is freedom.
I do
Not need you.
That is peace.
You were
The war that tried to end me.
I am
The war you could not be
I was a believer in you.
Now I believe
In what survived.
Not the wound
Not the goodbye, BUT THE VOICE that kept
Me alive.
WE ARE THE FALLEN BECOMING fEARLESS.
WE ARE THE BROKEN
Standing tallest.
Let the whole dark
Come and hear us.
We are STILL HERE
WE are believers
We are believers
Pain and you try to bury us in silence
Now hear the thunder underground rise believe