[Verse 1]
There's a stillness that you carry like a stone beneath the tide,
A mind that builds its castles while the ocean runs inside,
You show the world the steady ground, the calm, the level gaze,
But underneath that quiet sits a fire that never fades,
You've learned to hold your feelings like a hand holds something rare,
Too precious to be careless with, too heavy just to share,

[PreChorus]
You've guarded what the world might never earn the right to know,
But everything you're holding, love, was meant to help you grow,

[Chorus]
Donell, you are the depth beneath the water's still façade,
You are the one who carries more than anyone has told,
Every wall you ever built was knowing what was real,
Donell, you are already whole,

[Verse 2]
You love the way the current loves the stone it's carved for years,
Not loud, not quick, but endless, wearing down the old frontiers,
You give before you're asked to give, you feel before it's named,
You've walked through generations of a fire left unframed,
The roots your people handed you were tangled, deep, and dark,
But you became the one who turned that darkness to a spark,

[PreChorus]
The hunger you have carried for a world that makes more sense,
Is not a wound, it's vision, it's the cost of that immense,

[Chorus]
Donell, you are the depth beneath the water's still façade,
You are the one who carries more than anyone has told,
Every wall you ever built was knowing what was real,
Donell, you are already whole,

[Verse 3]
Now something in the atmosphere is pulling itself back,
A signal in the current asking what you still may lack,
It's not a step behind, it's just the tide before it turns,
A quiet recollection of the wisdom that it earns,
You've always been a person who could feel the shift before,
And what is now returning is just what you've held in store,

[PreChorus]
This pause is not a losing, it's a gathering of ground,
You are not where you were before, you're being newly found,

[Chorus]
Donell, you are the depth beneath the water's still façade,
You are the one who carries more than anyone has told,
Every wall you ever built was knowing what was real,
Donell, you are already whole,

[Bridge]
The stars did not write you to be small or incomplete,
They wrote you as the kind of soul that keeps the lost from sleep,
You don't need to arrive at anything to be enough,
The compass was inside you all along, and it still runs,

[Outro]
So let the current slow, let the tide come turning home,
Donell, you were never meant to carry this alone,
Every piece of you was written with the kind of ink that stays,
You are held in something larger than the sum of all your days,