AWAKEN ME

And you cracked yourself into broken pottery

Caving into blindness

For you didn't see the mockery

In making God's image sightless

Who gave away free life for complaints

and Living Water for fine luxuries

Laid bare for...

You once fell prostrate before God

But now stripped of innocence

Let God, I AM, profess this

To THESE struggling

I AM says this

For God doesn't wish to oppress thee

But oppose the sin inside of me

Would you discredit my justice bride?

Church, would you condemn me to justify yourself?

I AM

Did I not form you?

WHo is this who won't move...?

WHo is this who obscures without knowledge

When I AM declare the means

Not to harm you,

To give you a hope and future.

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation

Tell me if you understand

Who determined it's measurements?

Surely you know!

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
   that^(AI) a flood of waters may cover you?
³⁵Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go
   and say to you, 'Here we are'?

And how many times

Have you looked for me

and not seen this

and said "Now I see"

Have you even given orders to the morning

Or shown dawn its place?

That it might grab earth from the edges

and shake the wicked out of it?

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal

Its features stand out like those of

a garment

in these, I AM, I MOVED

DO you remember, Church

The Young, The Growing

The new you...

Or did the New Self once again become the Old too?

And you gave, caved, became broken to...

depression, peer pressure, negativity,

business, friends, drugs, cutting, pride,

anger, distractions, fears, and disturbances,

clicks, hate, selfishness,

CHILD, I AM isn't done with this

sports, perfectionism, prosperity, noise

And I AM has become a white noise

For you made a veil of distractions

But for you

I'm not done with this yet

Church, I'm still here

You're Dad's still me

You made the decision a while ago

To be free

THEN I WILL BE INDIGNIFIED
From the inside

Something felt once before
And this grace
will not be contained
I'll be aflamed
AWAKENED LIKE NEVER BEFORE

poem for the song Awakening