Skies Of Salvation

Stung by fear, my heart slipped into sorrow,
Wounded stood up to slip back again
Far from the great mountain of repentance,
I wandered the glittering streets of the world
Led by the king of deceit and darkness,
Who crawled on his belly into every hole he found
Veiled from truth, I smiled at lies,
Delighted in pleasures I cherished for leisure
I sweetened my lips with poisoned honey,
My curious mind with strange nectar
The few hearts I won, I cruelly hurt,
And anointed myself with the oil of pride

I walked the gardens of pleasurable sin,
Moving to the harmony of hell’s own harps
And with the rest of mankind, I proudly proclaimed,
How I stole the virginity of nature!
How I stripped her bare and naked,
Cruelly tormented the queen of benevolence!
How I gnashed my violent teeth,
At the flesh of goodness, tearing it apart!
Blinded by evil, I fell from above,
Into a pool of cold misery
And paid a price to hell to be revived,
To further blacken my soul, and fall again

The blood in my veins burned fiery hot,
Boiling for more and some more desire
At the foot of desire like I beggar I groveled
At the foot of sin like a peasant I obeyed
My heart stitched up thirteen times,
My soul broken in two and a half
Sold to sin hopeless and wretched,
I cringed towards a little dark corner
The droplets salt-flavored slowly trickled,
And for the first time in years, I began to pray

Though the author of life I had wretchedly denied,
And spat at his image not too long ago
Though his heart I had pierced with the blade of my sin,
And his love I had hurt with ignorance
Like the wind that rages at the peak of autumn,
And the wave that roars in an angry ocean
My lover from heaven blew bliss across me,
And lifted me to his fountains of splendor
He washed my being in the river of forgiveness,
And clothed me in the gown of his love
My every tear with care he collected,
And held them dear to his loving heart
Every wound that plagued my body and soul,
He tended and healed, the king of creation
And from the chambers of his great old mind,
He erased the memories of all my sin
From the darkest corner that was in hell,
To the eternal bliss that always awaited me,
I shall always remember the unmatchable love,
That lifted my spirit to the skies of salvation!