Dream of the Mountain Breaker

She sleeps in a white-lit room
Wires like vines on her skin
But under the eyelids
Burning
A sky full of shadows and wings

Iron around her knuckles
Blood on an ancient hill
She laughs in the face of thunder
Dares the dark to kill

In her dream
She is the mountain breaker
Bare hands
Bare soul
Nothing safer
Crushing stone till the stars all shake
Let the world
Let the world awake
Every scream is a vow unspoken
Every crack in her voice
Still golden
If this is a dream
Don't wake her
She's the fearless mountain breaker

Night ravens circle and snarl
Teeth made of glass and smoke
She tears through their storm-black feathers
Turns terror into hope

Dragons fall out of heaven
Scales like burning coal
She rips through their armored breathing
Guarding some quiet soul

In her dream
She is the mountain breaker
Bare hands
Bare soul
Nothing safer
Crushing stone till the stars all shake
Let the world
Let the world awake
Every scream is a vow unspoken
Every crack in her voice
Still golden
If this is a dream
Don't wake her
She's the fearless mountain breaker

Outside
They whisper numbers
Say she might never rise
But the bed is a battlefield border
And she's still burning inside

Her aura makes the hillsides shiver
Tremor under her feet
Even silence starts to stagger
Too afraid to speak

In her dream
She is the mountain breaker
Bare hands
Bare soul
Nothing safer
Crushing stone till the stars all shake
Let the world
Let the world awake
Every scream is a vow unspoken
Every crack in her voice
Still golden
If this is a dream
Don't wake her
She's the fearless mountain breaker

So if you stand by her window
And you feel the floorboards quake
That's her heart
That's her war still raging
That's the world she swore to break and remake