[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that doesn't need a stage to burn,
A quiet kind of courage that the world has yet to learn,
You move through crowded rooms but keep your deepest tides concealed,
An ocean underneath the calm, a garden unrevealed,
You've carried what was handed down and turned it into gold,
A flame that burns more tender now, more patient, more controlled

[PreChorus]
They see the warmth, they miss the weight you've held alone,
But every stone you've carried built the path back home

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written in a language stars still speak,
You are the strength behind the stillness, the river and the peak,
The world inside you matters more than any proof you've given,
Karen, you are whole and held and worthy just for living

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient that refuses to give in,
You dive before the question forms and let the light begin,
But you have swallowed longing whole and called it discipline,
Mistaken your own tenderness for something less than win,
The way you give before you're asked, the way you hold a dream,
Is not a wound to overcome — it's water, not a seam

[PreChorus]
The tide inside you isn't weakness, it's the proof,
That feeling this completely is a kind of truth

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written in a language stars still speak,
You are the strength behind the stillness, the river and the peak,
The world inside you matters more than any proof you've given,
Karen, you are whole and held and worthy just for living

[Verse 3]
The full moon rising over everything you've had to face,
Reveals what's always been there, steady, holding its own grace,
You questioned every map you had and built one of your own,
A compass made of wonder and a heart that's fully grown,
What rises now is not a test — it's recognition's call,
You were never almost enough, you were always all

[PreChorus]
Let the light that's spilling over be the sign you've earned,
That every road you walked alone was wisdom being learned

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written in a language stars still speak,
You are the strength behind the stillness, the river and the peak,
The world inside you matters more than any proof you've given,
Karen, you are whole and held and worthy just for living

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You don't have to burn before you claim your seat,
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that never fades,
You are the light that lives between the fire and the shade

[Outro]
Let the moon bear witness to the life you've always known,
Every scar a doorway, every doubt a stepping stone,
You are not becoming, Karen — you have always been,
The truest, most remarkable and necessary thing