~You shouldn’t be ashamed to be undone~
(from the song ‘Pray You Through’ recorded by Sixteen Cities)
http://www.elyrics.net/read/s/sixteen-cities-lyrics/pray-you-through-lyrics.html
Spring sunshine with an autumn chill
Love unrequited, destroying even the most jaded heart.
Once open to love, fully open to pain
Love breaks before it heals.
A strong gust of wind scatters the leaves
Blows the shadows away
Flutters midnight’s heavy curtain.
It whispers into silence the subtle lies that had driven the bite in the wind
The chill blow had set the trees and the lake to shivering
Falling leaves were shed like tears
To alight on the mirrored surface of the pond
* * *
You retreat into silence
The perfect paragon of virtue
You extended a hand
An answer to my deepest longing
(Not for a lover, but for a paternal companion)
Then you snatched it away just as I stepped out over the chasm
My trust was a rare, misplaced treasure
A porcelain dove that you shattered, crumbled to dust
In your wise, sacred hands
The price of love, the price of trust
Made a martyr to your over-ambition, your righteous cause.
Is love a curse or a rarity
That gives no solace for its inflicted pain?
Because you cannot see the wounds bleeding until after you’ve inflicted them
And its easier to wear your red glasses
And hide behind your shepherd’s staff, your holy halo
You pass it off as the fault of the afflicted
And move to your next scheduled thing.
Easier for you to move on and be distracted and busy.
Easier for me to be angry to cover the hurt
Like tissue paper laid over black sand.
And it can burn… it can burn to ash and glass…
* * *
I want away
To fly into the familiar yet distant sunset
That is gently calling for me.
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