SHE WALKS LIKE THE STORM IS WATCHING
I saw her once near Sector Three
Where the clouds don't move and the static breathes
She lit a flare with her bare right hand
Then vanished into no mans land
She don't speak much just tilts her head
Wears her name like a code they said
With boots of ash and a threadbare coat
And a whisper stitched inside her throat
She walks like the storm is watching
Like thunder holds its breath
She hums like she's tuned to lightning
Like she remembers death
She don't knock when she enters zones
The wind gets still the wires groan
And every soldier in the dark
Just hopes she's walking past not home
They say her hands once healed a hive
With nothing but salt and a pulse revived
They say she speaks to broken drones
And that the storm left her alone
I saw her leave with her collar high
She never once looked at the sky
But every light along the ridge
Flickered like it knew her stride
She walks like the storm is watching
Like rain reports to her
Her shadow bends in infrared
Her breath smells faint of myrrh
She don't bleed like the rest of us
She don't burn and she don't rust
And every time she disappears
Another signal cuts to dust
She doesn't hide she moves around you
Last known contact was Tower Nine
She smiled once and then the clouds changed direction
She walks like the storm is watching
Like the sky won't make a sound
She's marked in soot on bunker walls
And drawn in chalk beneath the ground
Don't call her name on open bands
Don't trace her steps with bloody hands
If she's nearby just let her be
Or she might stop and look at me