Restrained Among the chairs
You ask me why I feel nails driven through my hands,
slander piercing my heart, shame marring my face,
the arrogance around me lashes to my self esteem,
the smugness and striving of the excellent like ice
to my weeping soul and there is no way out?
I am stranded in the pews, tied down amongst the people,
battered, asphyxiated; crushed, and crucified amongst the
chairs. Those who are with me are unaware, lashes of rejection
bar them from feeling my love, and recognising
that once again, they have been banished with me.
Week after week I am lifted up, exalted, marvelled at,
lips part to worship me, hearts strain to find me in
the heights of praise, arms raised in the knowledge
of my father’s greatness and a desire to become like me.
Take those masks down that show a smiling face to the world,
and bear your souls. Allow the poor to be poor,
the meagre to be meagre, the repentant to be repentant,
and the tragic to be tragic, then I will visit in abundance,
I will bless in abundance I will flow in abundance,
I will remain in abundance, and never leave. Together
we will walk out into the world.
Jc - © May 06
slander piercing my heart, shame marring my face,
the arrogance around me lashes to my self esteem,
the smugness and striving of the excellent like ice
to my weeping soul and there is no way out?
I am stranded in the pews, tied down amongst the people,
battered, asphyxiated; crushed, and crucified amongst the
chairs. Those who are with me are unaware, lashes of rejection
bar them from feeling my love, and recognising
that once again, they have been banished with me.
Week after week I am lifted up, exalted, marvelled at,
lips part to worship me, hearts strain to find me in
the heights of praise, arms raised in the knowledge
of my father’s greatness and a desire to become like me.
Take those masks down that show a smiling face to the world,
and bear your souls. Allow the poor to be poor,
the meagre to be meagre, the repentant to be repentant,
and the tragic to be tragic, then I will visit in abundance,
I will bless in abundance I will flow in abundance,
I will remain in abundance, and never leave. Together
we will walk out into the world.
Jc - © May 06