you see a crown

 

When you see me, you see a crown

Braided thorns to lacerate

When you see me, you see his tears

Feel again his last heartbeat

 

When you hear me, my voice is his

My merit gone, his payment still

My falt’tring words give way ‘ere long

You hear him begging for your will

 

How can one who knows my all

Who’s seen me dark and loathsome live

Yet blind yourself now to my fall

See only him and freedom give?

 

 

Ever seeing yet as blind

You choose to keep him in my place 

‘Twill never change, in him I’m found

Forever mine, you see his face

 

 

When you touch me, ‘tis like a dove

Graceful wings, so silently 

As if you smile again on him

Bestow yourself for all to see

 

 

How can one who knows my all

Who’s seen me dark and loathsome live

Yet blind yourself now to my fall

See only him and freedom give?

 

 

 

4/23

sunrise

 

 

Sunset was my time of day

Painful mem’ries washed away

Deep’ning colors, growing breeze

The boughs begin to sway

 

I’m tired now, the nights grow cold

My sleep eludes, my dreams are old

A distant light, a still voice calls

A glimpse of diff’rent gold

 

Now sunrise ever calls to me

The gold of promise, come to be

Payment, freedom, rescue mine

Forever death from light will flee

Forever death from light will flee

 

I'll never be the same again

Changed for all through what you've done

Your goodness giv'n, your gift alone

Behold the rising son

 

Now sunrise ever calls to me

The gold of promise, come to be

Payment, freedom, rescue mine

Forever death from light will flee

Forever death from light will flee

 

 

 

 

11.30.22