I don’t know who I am anymore
Someone somewhere shut that door
And I’m lying on the floor
Thinking about identity
And if it could encapsulate me
In a tight little bundle
But I just roll the trundle
Wheel down the path
And think about the God of wrath
I was shown by a teacher in school
She read the Bible and it wasn’t cool
It was so dark and dense
And nothing was in the present tense
It was all recrimination
And I couldn’t see that the station
She stood at was pulling in to train
Us all to repeat again
What we’d learned
And if we didn’t we’d be burned
I shook with the terror
But something told me it was an error
Because we couldn’t be sinners at ten
But she threw suspicion on us over again
As though our childish might
Could be lit by the devil’s light
In seeking to avoid the dark
But the word just means to miss the mark
And maybe it’s not understood
That the heart of the human endeavour is good
If Jesus taught me anything
It’s that there’s an angel’s wing
Looking out for all of us
And that it’s okay to trust
In the best of what we are
I look for the star
You were born under
And the sound of thunder
Rumbles in a scene
If this is all a dream
Why does it feel
So real
In the dark and in the day
Am I gonna be okay?
Or am I already alright
Is my soul the light in the night
To remind me that the consciousness
Is the way that we undress
The skin
We are standing in
For a season or two
You fanned the flame but I still love you