FORGIVEN

Into the dimly lighted space
I knelt and prayed for soulful grace
How cold and stark and dark it was
Yet warm I felt the father’s voice

Whence I came a sinner’s hole
I fought my demons manifold
Words I swore and souls I tore
I bore the greatest guilt of all

The words I dread yet ought to say
Swam from my lips with shame
And under my skin my guilt displayed
My soul I wished to tame

Poised with welling beads of tears
The father’s chiding words I feared
Yet gentle was he who said to me,
“My child your sins He has forgiven”

The blackest sin my heart has told
Taken from me and crushed in the cold
And now I walk embraced by God
My heart new once again