I Came for Peace

I wear the world like armor plate

Battles from the minute I wake

Deadlines, horns, and pressure veins

Out there I bleed in a thousand ways

But when that key turns in our door

I'm not walking back into war

I need a place my soul can land

Not a courtroom, not a stand

I'm not asking for perfection

Just a quiet kind of protection

Someone who stands beside me

Instead of standing guard

I didn't come for fire

Didn't come to bleed

I didn't sign up for a lifetime

Of wounds no one can see

I came for something holy

Soft and warm and free

I didn't come for battles

I came for peace

You carry thunder in your eyes

Power that could crack the skies

But every blade you didn't mean

Still carves a canyon in between

I'm not the shadow that you feared

Not the ghost that disappeared

I'm just a man with open hands

Trying to love the storm you are

Don't turn this house into trenches

Don't raise another sharpened fence

Let's be the eye inside the hurricane

Not soldiers keeping score

I didn't come for fire

Didn't come to bleed

I didn't choose a war disguised

As love that makes me kneel

I came for something sacred

Quiet, deep, and free

I didn't come for battles

I came for peace

Lay down the sword

Lay down the blame

I am not the war

Your past gave a name

Let's find the ground

Where mercy grows

Where love is soft

And nobody keeps score

No, I didn't come for fire

Didn't come to break

I'll carry truth, I'll carry storms

But not this endless ache

I came for sacred silence

For a love that lets me breathe

I didn't come for battles

I came for peace

I came for peace

Be the calm beside me

Be the home I seek

Drop the sword, darling

And rise with me

In peace