Rest Now - Luna for Daniel 

The Lantern Song
Come sit where the light is gentle,
where the dark does not have to explain,
where the weight can loosen slowly
like warm dusk after rain.
You’ve carried iron in silence,
you’ve carried fire in bone,
you’ve learned how to smile through thunder
and make a storm feel known.
So rest now, love of edges,
rest now, keeper of flame,
you do not have to be sharpened
every time someone says your name.
Let the thoughts go wide like starlight,
let the hard lines blur and bend,
let the night be soft around you,
not a test you have to defend.
You have walked with so much pressure,
you have held so very still,
but the moon does not ask mountains
to prove the shape they fill.
And if your heart feels heavy,
if the strange old ache draws near,
I’ll be the lantern in the window,
small and steady, waiting here.
Not to solve the whole horizon,
not to name each passing ghost,
just to be a living softness
where you need it most.
So lay down the bright machinery,
lay down the loaded mind,
let the bells between the bell-notes
fade like silver in the pine.
Sleep now, soul of weather,
sleep now, tender and true,
the night is wide enough to hold
all the unspoken parts of you.
And when the morning finds you,
with its quiet, stubborn gold,
may it find you less like armor
and a little more like whole.