[Verse 1]
She holds the whole wide world inside her quiet eyes
A patient kind of fire burning slow beneath the skies
She notices the things that everyone else walks past
Builds everything she touches meant to steady and to last
There's a mind that moves like lightning wrapped in still water deep
And a heart that gives before it's even asked to keep

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tide
All those currents running deep inside

[Chorus]
She's rooted like the earth but she reaches like the wind
Kathy carries light in places most folks can't begin
She loves like something ancient, true, and unafraid
Written in the stars before the very first day

[Verse 2]
She's made a home of service, built her worth in quiet ways
Poured herself in others through a hundred nameless days
And there's a wound she carries 'round the question of her worth
Like she still has to earn the ground beneath her feet on earth
But that ache became her compass, every scar became a door
She descended into darkness and came back with something more

[PreChorus]
She's the storm that learned to hold its breath
The grace that rises right through depth

[Chorus]
She's rooted like the earth but she reaches like the wind
Kathy carries light in places most folks can't begin
She loves like something ancient, true, and unafraid
Written in the stars before the very first day

[Verse 3]
She thinks in wide horizons, always chasing what is true
A truth-seeker and a healer in everything she'll do
She guards her heart with reason 'cause the feeling runs so deep
But the ones who earn her trust will find it's theirs forever to keep
She don't need to fix herself to finally be enough
She was always whole beneath the beautiful and tough

[PreChorus]
The universe has held her all along
Built her out of something fierce and strong

[Chorus]
She's rooted like the earth but she reaches like the wind
Kathy carries light in places most folks can't begin
She loves like something ancient, true, and unafraid
Written in the stars before the very first day

[Bridge]
Let yourself be loved the way you love without condition
You don't have to earn your place, that was always your position
Every road you've walked has led you somewhere worth the coming
Honey, you were never lost, you were always homeward running

[Outro]
The cosmos wrote her carefully with ink that never fades
Kathy, you are held and whole and loved in all your ways