We Choose Us

We remember before we remembered Names like stars behind a mask and a vow on Cathar’s sand Two paths circling the same gravity well—we We were already a chord before the melody knew us We met where destinies crash‑land—Taris burning in the windows You breathed fleets into focus with Battle Meditation, I learned to breathe again We were enemy / remedy, council wires in my head, your hand at my wrist We left footprints on Dantooine’s grass, then ghosts in Korriban dust We were unmasked on the Leviathan—truth like a saber to the ribs But we didn’t break—we re‑forged under Rakatan skies The Star Forge screamed; we held the note until it shattered And when silence fell, your lips said stay, my heart said we We were a wound turned window, light pouring through We were the Ebon Hawk cutting dark like an oath We were hands untrembling while the galaxy trembled Count to three—jump—trust the Force and us Together we fall, together we rise Under Lehon storms we chose our lives We burned the Star Forge out of the sky Whatever the mask, we choose us every time From memory’s edge to the Senate’s shine Say it again—we choose us every time We choose us, we choose us We choose us every time We wore rings in the rain between Coruscant spires You laughed like sunrise on durasteel—soft where war couldn’t reach We hid a cradle by the window, named our star Vaner Shan Little hands around our thumbs, the galaxy finally small We kept our vows quiet, love louder than the Council’s doubts We mapped new constellations on each other’s scars But visions pressed like thunder—Unknown Regions calling your name We said “for protection” and meant “for everything” We were morning tea and training sabers on a living‑room floor We were lullabies in D minor for a sky‑lane city We were a letter left in the light: I’ll be back when it’s safe Hold the line, hold the love, hold the name Together we fall, together we rise Under Lehon dreams and Coruscant nights We burned the Star Forge, then learned to breathe Whatever the war, we choose us when we bleed From cradle to hyperspace’s endless line Say it again—we choose us every time We choose us, we choose us We choose us every time We felt a hunger older than empires, a voice like We split across the distance but the thread held fast Dromund Kaas storms beat time; your silence taught me patience An exile heard our echo and chased the dark for us Years in a prison of visions, yet your name was the map I was half without you, half burning, still we You kept the home flame; Vaner grew tall as a spire Every night we were the same constellation, separated stars We—are—here We—endure Say the vow softly so the Force leans in We choose us, again Together we fall, together we rise From Cathar’s vow to the Senate skies We burned the Star Forge, lit the night Whatever the mask, we choose us every time We tucked Vaner under city‑light moons We wrote our future on the room’s warm gloom If duty calls me past the rim’s last line Hold our name—I’ll follow it home in time We choose us, we choose us We choose us every time We were a war, we are a family Star‑forged hearts, Coruscant rings, forever in D minor—we