Silenced Truth

You flicker and waver like a flame

But if I’m burned you’re not to blame

You warned me to stay so far away

But without you I cannot find my way

You claim you’re the poison without a cure

I say that there’s no such thing as pure

We’re all poor sinners leaning on grace

You lie and say that you need the space

With me close you feel you’re better

Loosed are the chains – gone the fetters

But when you leave you truly fear

Your one chance at love will disappear

So you leave and wish on that second star

Hoping things are better when you’re far

Where you can’t hurt me, where you can’t be

A taint in the beauty of my being free

(If only you knew how much I long for you. If only you knew that I knew. If only you saw that your stains and sins don’t subtract from my love for you.)