After the Storm
I've been this way forever
Long as I can remember
And everything I've done I've done
Because I am this way
Because I'm born from tragedy
Fire and calamity
And for the longest time I
Thought that I would always fall
But that aching in my heart
The bitter happiness apart from
Everyone and everything
That has ever put me down
Has kept my fingers aching
For this pencil to be making
All the beauty and the madness
That my mind always creates
And though that alcoholic father
Never saw his little daughter
Mother, soldier, fought for me
So I could come back home
And though my memories will shake me
From the man who thought could take me
I will be forever fighting
Like my mother told me to
Because although my heart is fragile
Nothing ever can dismantle
All the strength I've built
from being tossed up in the storm
Born and raised in tragedy
But I will never fall, you see
'Cuz I am stronger from my scars
And my head is in the stars
And I will live and love and write
And die with a smile on my face