BACK TO YOU

Are you so sure?

Do you deserve to feel like this?

Triumphs tender kiss; your thoughtless little bliss.

Oh, simple one…have you weathered all the storms?

Have you earned your mighty roar…

Or did I watch you choke?

Have you sanctified the time with the years of troubled trying?

Some of us never sleep and you MUST be dreaming.

Hold your head high, tell yourself you did it.

In your heart you won’t admit it…only half way there.

It’s bittersweet to give yourself congratulations.

You just didn’t have the patience now you’re left behind.

When you cut I turned a corner.

There will be no one left to mourn you.

When you vanish in disgrace let me say it to your face…

I will take everything inside.

I will take all of your foolish pride.

I will take all the best of you…tear it in two…

And hand it back to you.

I’ve been below.

Many years beneath the surface.

Seeking silver for a surfeit; I will never be your servant.

And you know…

In the months and years to follow,

As you mourn all your tomorrow’s

I’ll be smiling at your sorrows.

No closure to restore you.

Here at last I stand before you.

As you struggle to conceal

Your open weeping as you kneel.

I will take everything inside…

I will take all your foolish pride…

I will take all the best of you, tear it in two.

At last your debt is due.

It isn’t me.

It’s you.

You always though you knew…

You’ve been a fool.

PENTECOST