She said the days were far too long and heaven too far away
And I had not a way or word to comfort her that day
Her smooth skin would show me wounds that no one else had seen
And that she walked the nightmarish journey to reach the shining dream
No stars showed in her eyes that day as she spoke her personal truth
The minutes, hours, days, months, and years that had beaten her since youth
She said the night had been far from kind and in turned she longed for sun
But the sun had yet to shine and the dark was far from done
I had no words for there were none, on tongue or fingertips
No comfort in my shadowed touch for her quivering lips
And so I stood without arms in the face of a battle with her soul upon display
As stars fell in her truth-filled tears, with heaven so far away