[Verse 1]
There's a stillness in the way you hold your ground,
Patient as the earth before the thaw comes around,
A mind that turns like tides, collecting every word,
Carrying the weight of thoughts that haven't yet been heard,
They see the calm, they don't see what runs beneath,
All that depth you've learned to fold and quietly keep.

[PreChorus]
But every root you've grown through stone,
Has made you something you don't fully know.

[Chorus]
Marieke, the ground beneath you holds,
You are more than the quiet, more than the controlled,
The stars wrote you carefully, with ink that doesn't fade,
You are exactly, precisely, what you were made.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient rushing in without a sound,
Bold enough to leap before you've checked the ground,
But somewhere in the leap you learned to guard the door,
Built your walls from disappointments you don't mention anymore,
That caution isn't failure, it's a memory made wise,
Every scar taught you the difference between truth and a disguise.

[PreChorus]
And what you give before you're asked to give,
Is a kind of grace that only rare hearts live.

[Chorus]
Marieke, the ground beneath you holds,
You are more than the quiet, more than the controlled,
The stars wrote you carefully, with ink that doesn't fade,
You are exactly, precisely, what you were made.

[Verse 3]
You've carried burdens softly in the place no one can see,
Absorbing what the world needs, asking nothing to be free,
A dreamer and a builder walking two roads at once,
Reaching for the infinite while standing in the sun,
Now something stirs, a new wind moving through the trees,
An ember catching fire, a door swung wide with ease.

[PreChorus]
The path you've walked in patience has been leading here,
To a version of yourself you no longer need to fear.

[Chorus]
Marieke, the ground beneath you holds,
You are more than the quiet, more than the controlled,
The stars wrote you carefully, with ink that doesn't fade,
You are exactly, precisely, what you were made.

[Bridge]
You don't have to shrink to make the room feel safe,
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
The world you've always carried in your chest,
Is already the answer, you are already blessed.

[Outro]
So let the tide come in, let the fire speak,
You are everything you've been searching for, Marieke.