Hearts hurting and eyes burning
With the unshed tears
The wounds on our hearts are bleeding still
The unspoken pain building the walls
These walls we think will protect our vulnerability
Our innocence from a wounding world
Holding our stories in, trying to ebb the flow of our
Bleeding hearts
Not wanting to speak for fear our wounds will
Burn as our stories are recounted
From the outside, we are living perfectly
We portray our lives like a story book
A fairy tale we have always wished them to be
We forget that the greatest stories of victory
The ones we cry as we hear, watch and see
Are the ones with the most
Pain, sorrow and struggle
When we think their lives can’t get any worse
They sink farther
Until Someone risks their all and reaches out
Takes their hand and saves them
They triumph over their situation
Over their pain sorrow and struggle
To live a life worthy of praise
But Someone had to reach out to them
To leave their mark
They walked them through the most painful
The unshed tears fall harder and harder
But the wounds on their hearts
Turn from bleeding to healing
To a scar
Our pain is not permanent
Our bleeding will stop
Once we allow the healing
But the marks of our healing are forever there to remind
Us of what we were pulled out of
They are scars—they are healed
The nails still left marks on His hands of perfection
But those hands are not destined for death
They are pre-destined for life
This world will try to bring us further and further down
Like a ball and chain to drowned us
But once we reach out and take the scarred hands offered us
Our shackles fall—it is for freedom He set us free
We are free
Free from the pain others inflicted on us
Pain of abandonment
Of abuse
Of physical aches and pains
Of the sins we committed against ourselves
Against the ones we love the most
Against God
His mark is left on us
Now go out and leave His mark
On the others who are imprisoned
He is mighty to save
And He has called you
To go out and make
A legacy worthy to say
“Well done, my good and faithful servant”
In us, He will be well pleased
This is positively beautiful, Kara. :)
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