Power and Grace

Grace says
She admires Power
Little farm-bred girl
Who knows how to survive

But Grace she don't see
How her little feet
Shuffled from one
Shinning coast
To another
From city to city
She sparkled
And when fallen
Always landed upright

Power
Well she ran
With the force
Of a wild cat
Across this great land
And she turned
Innocence
Inside out
Sold the ocean
And her kin
For a piece
Of normalcy

And she always dreamed
Eyes gleaming full of green
Wishing she was
Grace's free

Hard choices
Of every coin I see
On both sides
I gotta believe

This is where
I come from
Their endurance
Woven in
My DNA
A testament
To getting through
Anything

And they wonder
Where I get it from
This ability
To brush it off and go on
All I can do
Is shrug and say
My heritage
Is just this way

I am the better parts
Of both of you
Made my mistakes
Pay for them too
But always learning
More aware
Than those before
Ever dared