Unbound

Fearful in wonder you gaze

At the numberless saints that perform

This Hymn that is sung not in faith

From a root that is visceral torn

And the quake of an oncoming storm.

Grounded in doctrine you thought

That certain was biblically sound

And the groans of the poorly informed

And the cries of the lost so profound

Cause a shudder in this spiritless house

Now awaken you passionate try

And awaken those sleepers that see

Only the evil in fire

The ones who are never redeemed

Who’ve rejected the five-point conceit.

Pin doubt to the wall of a cave

As the light seeps in through a cleft

Catch shadows in the dark that you hate

And in the time that calls dawn as bereft

Be revealed in the light you have left.

Lazarus’s smile is now wide

And the mirror’s new crack is a smile

The drag that washed in on the tide

Sin’s drag that shame fed on for miles

Seems to have weakened awhile.

Future and past now fade weak

In this sacred moment of now

And all that was broken and bleak

And all that was lived out of bounds

Is ablaze as new mercy astounds

And these dark deathless chains are unwound.