If I'd locked myself in chambers
Could you have found your way
Would you have known the walls and doors
around the disarray

Did I lead you, Did you know
I was looking for directions
to give you, to ensnare you
under the guise of my protection

Did you feel honored, while they waited
at the siege They’d come for me
I had no more to surrender
save for lover’s reverie

They are the lovers of a moment
temporary tyrants of chattels
The provisory purchasers of hearts
bathe in red, my passion quelled

Dear Love I’d tried to trick you
trap you, steal you for my own
for salve upon these burning wounds
Where only acid I have known

Did you know that I had sewn you
into patches, tapestries
mending wounds concealing scars
left by my jagged liberties

Would you come but kindly, gently
Make for me a home
Once again inside these boulder walls
That soon became gravestones

There is still strength inside this heart
So long as it does beat
And Love in you I find content
Amends towards my defeat

I carried life yet did not live
until, from blood and darkness came
a light that only God could give
from sacrificial flesh and pain.

For broken nights and restive days
of drifting into starry skies
hours, weeks, lifetimes I’d stay
daydreaming in your onyx eyes.

To look upon my face in prayer
with worship in your smile so pure
as if the holy land was here
in my arms forevermore.