The Self Same Shame

The self same shame comes to haunt my days 
And it is the same in oh, so many ways
As I feel the pull of the energy
Lower down and it’s defeating me
As I become what I’d never be
Obsessed with image and eternity
Seems to recede
Into something which I just believe
In on a day like this
Jesus was betrayed by a Judas kiss
Upon his cheek
And I am weak
When I come to say
That is not okay
And I hold it against her for years
And it is the reflection in my own tears
That prompts me to change
And the atoms rearrange
In their own way and form
And while the heat is warm
I keep my hands by the fire
But I tire
Of being something that never ends
And I’ve lost my share of friends
In the fight I’ve had with the wind
When I was seven they told me I’d sinned
And I needed to tell
Parts of myself that belonged to hell
So I began to think
And wonder where it was I sink
I fight with my sisters, I tell a lie
Then four years later my grandfather die
And I pummel the walls
That keep us separated down the halls
And somehow in that great expanse
Something was born that made my heart dance
And showed me that there is a light
That never goes out and that they are alright
The ones that have crossed the bridge
Of something that always Is
And evermore
Becomes the heart of me, mo stór
As it whispers to me
That death is merely being set free
Into the great forever
And no endeavour
Is ever lost
I was a child and I paid the cost
In believing what I was told
And so I seem to grow old
And into a skin that is miles long
But maybe that belief is wrong
As something ever pure
Is more than diamonds and demure
It is deep and it is real
And it is not just what I feel
But everlasting in it’s sight
I feel the burn and let it light
Up into the chaff that resides
In the depths of who I am, derides
And finds the fuselage to learn
That the world will continue to turn
Long after the wheel has subsided
I look at you and the peace abided

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