Within

Raging deep beneath my skin
Beyond thoughts of hope and sin
Lives a current all His own
In my heart it has its home

Breathing deeply from my shattered core
He burns within and releases more
I inhale life from my healing heart
My skin and soul rift apart

In my pain I’ve wondered past
But now I see His way at last
Covered by wrongs hidden by blood
Poised to release its consuming flood

Deep within I feel His force
Raging within from my source
Dying to live He breaths complete
I no longer maintain and compete

To keep Him secret deep within
Beyond all secret’s caged begin
Now the time has come for life
The walls He pierces like a knife

Consumed is my heart and mind
Never will I seek to find
Again myself inside complete
Never again shall I repeat

This tortured path beyond my sin
Pushed beneath my soul within
Now He breaks free to fully live
Free at last my soul to give

No longer hidden behind the walls
Of sins and wrongs gripping halls
Free from all to live and die
No longer required death to cry

Instead I see and hear the life
No longer controlled by sin and strife
One step forward I now take
One future renewed I now make


All because deep within
Beyond all wrongs and damning sin
Raged a current from His will
No longer kept at bay and still.

The Reason We Break

Sundered from within am I
As my soul is incomplete
I cannot describe the pain I feel
As I writhe beneath your feet

Why have you destroyed me
And all that I endeavor
Was this your goal, to rift my soul
My sentence is forever.

Looking up to You I see beyond
What mortal minds my hold
I see my hope, my truth, my love, my life
My redemption has been foretold

The blissful peace of air unbound
I sense in my ruined being
But I hasten to disbelieve
The frightening vision I’m seeing

I see my damaged soul as healed
Mended by your abounding grace
You have wiped my hands of blood
And dried my tear wrought face

You have done what could not be
By the power of Your hand
You have broken me to set me free
And now I understand.

On Broken Knees

My friend, hello I recognize
The hopelessness you’ve dealt
Upon my soul for years and years
On broken knees I’ve knelt

So lonely in this dank abyss
No light with which to see
Nor air to breathe and fill my lungs
Constrict to smother me

And hold my eyes fused shut again
My tears to flood the dam
Of heart held back as bones dissolve
Restricting all I am

To love is lost at last long gone
Though likely I'll live on
Within the grays of lifeless prayers
Ragged robes left to don

And wonder just what purpose makes
When sadness reigns supreme
To steal away what makes me me
Then locks away my dream

To sleep or die perchance no dreams
Will herald peacefulness
For when I wake the nightmares live
To steal my hopefulness.