The Giving

Tears in silence, hopeless tears,
As grief engulfs my being.
Fears of darkness, evil fears,
No light in what I'm seeing.
I shift with the earth, the blood-drenched earth.

Sleep... what sleep? My peace is gone.
Agony cages my heart.
Light... what light? There is no dawn,
for sin is the fatal dart.
I sigh with the moon, the bone-white moon.

Doom, yes doom, is my just fate,
Yet memory wakens pain.
Love, yes love and not this hate,
God's love once shining through the rain.
I splash into the sea, the sobbing sea.

With my hand, my filthy hand,
I reach for the One who cares,
A command, a soft command,
I give, now my guilt He bears.
I weep in sunlight, the joyful sunlight.