Take Me
Take me with my broken wings,
My gaping holes and my bruised skin
Take me with my nervous heart,
Tell it it’s alright to let the healing begin
Take me with my splintered will,
My shattered belief and promises I rue
Take me with my squandered trust,
And teach my hope to swim anew
Take me with my sunless eyes,
With my ragged truth, nibbled by lies
Take me as I fall from grace,
Tell me it’s okay to take another leap of faith
Take me with my broken smile,
With my orphaned affection and my gnawing doubt
Take me with all my sleepless fears,
Help me shed those held-back tears
Take me as I become myself again,
As I shed yesterday that had me in chains
Take me, but you needn’t hold my hand
Just stay beside, and I’ll make my own stand
Take me, and show me the light,
As I walk away and exile the old
Then take me, and watch,
A hopeful, new story unfold