They said I couldn't sit so I ran

Out past the reef where no girl swam

They called me wild called me wrong

But I could row all night and still be strong

The nuns said "broken" the priests said "shame"

My name too loud my thoughts untamed

But I learned to bend without the break

To play their rules but not their fate

They taught me shame I answered back

With eyes that cut through every mask

I failed I fell I stood again

Not by grace but grit and flame

I'm not the stillness I'm the tide

A storm that waits then burns the sky

Born too loud too sharp too much

But made for war for truth for trust

They'll never name what I became

A girl too fast to fit their frame

But every flaw they tried to hide

Is now the reason I survive

They dragged me north where no one smiled

Where books were rules and hearts on trial

I held my tongue I bit my pride

But still my thoughts refused to hide

I passed their tests with different eyes

Not built for scores but seeing lies

I learned their laws I learned their ways

And still I dreamed of ocean days

My mind's a storm but I've made it lean

Sharp as a blade fast and unseen

Sharp as a blade fast and unseen

I slip through doors they tried to close

And walk through fire no one chose

I'm not the silence I'm the spark

That finds its way through halls gone dark

Too quick to tame too strange to fall

But made to break a higher wall

They wrote me off then watched me rise

A storm that learns a girl who tries

And though I walk in stranger's lands

I shape the world with calloused hands

You say I scatter

But only when the world stands still

You say I stray

But I find truth outside your will

You say I'm wild

But wild is how the island breathes

I falter in the quiet days

But sharpen when the fire sways

I drift in lines you call control

But lock in when the cannons roll

You thought I'd fold but I unfold

When storms arrive I don't let go

I move where silence dares not stay

And hold my ground when light gives way

And every edge you tried to dull

Became the blade that took your hull

I'm not the peace you understand

I'm wind and fire wrapped in sand

Too fierce to hold too soft to kill

A war made quiet a mind made still

The calm I find in burning skies

That's where my strength and sorrow lie

And when the storm comes for my kin

You'll see what lives beneath this skin

I was made for more than rules and fear

And the world I need is drawing near

Let them try to name my storm

But they've never seen it calm… before the war