We can pretend that it was all a dream,
We can put reality past us and forget.
Forget for a second what we lost,
Forget our tangled paths that uncrossed.

They told us all they wanted to do was grow up
But the ship crashed and they became our stars.
Stars that shine upon the dark and stormy sky,
Stars that remind us they are always nearby.

The first wave hit and they were told to stay put
When they should have been running for their lives.
Lives that are now lost in the unforgiving sea,
Lives of faces that again, we will never see.

When the captain abandoned the ship to live,
They were sacrificing their life vests to save their friends.
Friends that were desperately grasping for dear life,
Friends who sensed death was at their door with a knife.

When they knew that there was no going back,
We received texts of their last I love you’s.
Those three words were never said enough,
Those three words never sounded this rough.

Within the thirteen hours since they arrived on the ship,
It had completely submerged under.
Under towards darkness to never see light again,
Under and under, without anyone to explain.

Out of 476 only 174 were saved,
And others returned home to their parents in a coffin.
Coffins that were ruthless slaps in our faces that told us everything was real,
Coffins that closed in our broken hearts, a feeling we did not know we could feel.

When mothers saw their precious children in wooden boxes,
And imagined their pain as they searched for their last breath of air,
Breathing when their beloved children could not felt like a sin,
Breathing was impossible when there was so much pain within.

As days passed by, we sat in confusion
And the world turned to gray.
Gray like the hairs that prove how time has passed by.
Gray when a terrible storm leaves the night sky.

Time seemed frozen as the world kept spinning,
We lifted ourselves to take the first step into the future,
The future that had seemed so bright,
The future no longer felt right.

But when we looked into the sky
And felt the stars shining down at us,
It was as if they were still with us everyday,
It was as if they were saying it was okay.