Insignificant

Verse 1

I was a girl in tender years,

My days blurred by silent tears,

I don't recall the cause or reason,

But sorrow ruled my fleeting season.

My heart was crushed, my spirit worn,

As though in pain I had been born,

The world felt harsh, too vast to bear,

A weight too great for one so fair.

Pre-Chorus

It is a tale both old and true,

Lived in me and lived in you,

For every soul, in some dark state,

Must wrestle with shadowed fate.

Chorus in Oratorio

I still recall the softened breeze

That dried my tears with gentle ease,

I raised my eyes to heaven's height,

Where stars were burning through the night.

They shimmered cold, yet fierce and bright,

In endless depths beyond my sight,

And in that sky so wide, so far,

I felt how small and brief we are.

Verse 2

The universe—so vast, so still,

Unmoved by grief, untouchd by will,

And I, a spark, so faint, so slight,

Adrift within its boundless night.

Then came to me a quiet release—

A strange, unexpected kind of peace,

For if I'm small, my pain is too,

A passing shade that once I knew.

Chorus in Oratorio

I still recall the softened breeze

That dried my tears with gentle ease,

I raised my eyes to heaven's height,

Where stars were burning through the night.

They shimmered cold, yet fierce and bright,

In endless depths beyond my sight,

And in that sky so wide, so far,

I felt how small and brief we are.

Verse 3

And in that truth, I found relief,

A gentle balm for hidden grief,

My smallness wrapped me like a shroud,

A silent, comforting, cosmic cloud.

It held me close, both soft and mild,

Like arms that soothe a weeping child,

And in its silence, I came to see

There's quiet strength in being small... and free.

Chorus in Oratorio

I still recall the softened breeze

That dried my tears with gentle ease,

I raised my eyes to heaven's height,

Where stars were burning through the night.

They shimmered cold, yet fierce and bright,

In endless depths beyond my sight,

And in that sky so wide, so far,

I felt how small and brief we are.