A Prophet Scorned

Did I lose myself to the Lost?
Got no home that’s mine
Drifting off in adventure
Wondering about the cure

Nobody knows me
What am I to be?
Hidden so well
I will never tell

But I revealed myself anyway
Got nothing else to say
You have got the truth
In your hands not your tooth

What I said was in the darkness
Does not mean what I said was dark
Rather especially toward revealing the light
The one love that is true

But when I spoke in the darkness
The Word became the light
Filling up so ever bright
Making everything sound and right

People believe because they are free
Without imposing those beliefs
Progress is made towards a true life
Preparing to see His Holy Face alright

Put your song on repeat
Looking for something to defeat
Found your pride as big as your head
Poured out all my love instead

When will you be
That which you see
That which you dream
That light to beam

Take these brief expressions
Open up in those sessions
Grant favours to the unfavoured
A possibility untethered

I am troubled deeply as usual
Everyone still strolling casual
Brace for the inevitable
Ascend, if you are able

Your style of ignorance breeds hate
I even tried to set some bait
Should have used a net
To capture from you anything I can get

Otherwise I am left to nothing
Definitely not just some thing
Rather an interested lost entity
I wish my riches were not so empty

Though I found a secret
No gold will you need to get
For the treasure that’s found
Is greater than anything sound

You beat the bass up
I am fishing for your attention
Your rhythm syncs with my heart
I’ve got no more luck
As if it exists anyway
I am that bass

I’ve got blurry eyes
Which is not really blind
Just different perspective
Up close I can see imperfections
Which are really not imperfections
Just different in perfection
The heart is the same
One in love and ready the same

I wish I was actually mentally ill
Then maybe this suffering will
Come to a bitter and hopeful end
So I endure it again and again
In payment by the pain
For yours and my transgressions
Not found in any aggressions

I fell in love with you
The moment I saw you
Cracked open my heart’s shell
Exposing all, do tell

From here I stay silent
My passions I will relent
Otherwise misunderstood intentions
Blown out of proportions

I love that you love me
Looking to within me
I most certainly find thee
To find you outside me
Another matter entirely

I pine for your love
But when push comes to shove
I will step aside
To set you on a ride
To a place you have never been

There is more to love when you give it
Better to give it than to receive it
Does more for your soul
Than any particular kind of role
Granting graces as He sees fit

I know this
’cause I live this
Every day
Forever will I say
I love you more than you know

Got the rhythm blues
Dancing in my shoes
In step with you
Spinning ’round you

My love poured out in motion
Deep and sorrowful emotion
To get to you by locomotion
I hope you get the notion

To all I am dangerous
Dangerously close
To condemning the world
An eye to behold
All truth be told
Don’t fit into a mould
Casting away all darkness
Revealing your true nature

So lift up your hearts
Let your spirits be lifted
Sanctioned grace comes by the way
To those who seek it and know it
Bypassing all the wretched
And leaving dust in it’s wake

When I looked I peered deep
Into His Countenance a pure sweep
Knocked me off my feet
Saw His smile, a defeat
Gracious and beyond beauty
Perfection absolutely

I suffer for you
Want and need you
To feel the love I feel
Embracing that which is real

In a blanket of pain
From others I get disdain
Unknowingly self-destructive
They think what they do is positive

I go by unnoticed
Hoping you noticed
But as reality kicks in
My mistakes, my sin

Yet reconciliation prevails
Over condemnation and nails
Granted forgiveness
Despite my nothingness

There is joy to be found
Despite what evils surround
For we have refuge in the Cross
But to some they are at a loss

To discern spiritual things
Is not like observing Saturn’s rings
But rather disciplined love that does not relent
Listening to those whom God has sent