One Soul

You only get one soul

A lantern lit in the palm of God

Before the rivers were carved

Before the stars learned their names

It is the hush inside your heartbeat

The ember He pressed into your chest

So you would never forget

You were born from light

You can wander deserts of your own making

Lose yourself in the noise of lesser fires

Trade your holiness for hollow crowns

Yet the soul keeps glowing

Patient as dawn

Faithful as breath returning

For it remembers Eden

It remembers the Voice

That called it out of nothing

And wrapped it in eternity

Tend it like a secret garden

Water it with prayer

Let it kneel

Let it rise

Let it burn with the quiet certainty

That heaven is its homeland

Because you only get

One soul

One fragile

Blazing miracle

One eternal thread

God wove through your mortal days

To lead you back to Him