The sound of the chains striking the ground
Is the war cry of freedom from what kept her bound

She use to know isolation, caged in everyone's secrets
Yet now she runs free, and her joy cant be depleted

Her mouth was sealed
Her heart revealed
Wounds and shadows of a life left unhealed

Rain soaked her pillow, from storms eyes only could give
Her agony left her cold, as she searched for a reason to live

Desperate for solace, a comfort beyond herself
She sought renewal, and transformation
A breaking from her old self

She needed a love that she had never known
She needed seeds of protection that had never been sown

She desired a place that was stable where she could grow
She looked to the Rescuer, crying, tell these chains to let me go

Peace and certainty is what she found
As the chains began to crumble and they sounded off upon the ground

Warriors came forth and fought at her side
To wage war with the barriers that tried to hold her inside

The barricades that had been built by her pain
Also from the shadows she had always known, when she was in chains

Until the day when a sweet soul brought in a light, an ax, and a rope
To cut off the strongholds, bind up her broken heart, and lead her to Acres of Hope

She's free, and she will never be the same.

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