from days gone by I am awakening with sight reborn, with purpose felt anew a creature formed by hands of mercy a phoenix child flying on molten wings from ashes cold our love will arise a tale once told the drifting shreds of lives lost within the spreading dark, no light to call them home I touch your face with hands of mercy an angel child who never found her wings take one for love, and another for loss and so to shape the feathers of your wings I touch with care, with hands of mercy your soaring form, that found its way to me