Flowers Lyrics

I had hemlock for breakfast

Or so it feels

Many a morning, I'm mourning the tyranny of inner me

Each thought a thread in a tapestry of self-blasphemy

Or the normal kind for that matter

See, my legacy: inadequate

I'm a cavity, cancerous

A factory fashioned to miscarry every good thing

"It's all my fault"

A crackpot hitting every pothole and pitfall

On this blacktop that I call my scattered brain

"Thani, hypocrite!

How unchristian it is to partake in the masquerade"

I seek rescue from this shrapnel in my mind

See, I've always sucked at Minesweeper

Who else thinks like me?

With misplaced hopes, victim to their trickery

Subject to the vacuum of anxiety, addiction, apathy

That hellish trilogy

Casualty of the maggoty blackness

The pathogen so known as shame

Endlessly enslaved to its refrain

Wearing emptiness like a necklace

smelted from the embers of abandonment

I need a new song

And what more eloquent lyric existed than

"God so loved"?

Love of a Father who sent His boy on trek divine

This loyal lover's greatest garden handwoven by complex design

His soil covering clay once dry, honeysuckle of heaven's guide

Spread for miles by bloody struggle to beckon life

For us, His prize, reconciled

Made alive in Him

Making way for love of Breath assigning new birthstones

Clothing bride in lush silk

The vine abiding in eternal tryst

A kiss, a seal, a fingerprint, He fills

A flame enabling us to remain in Him

And in that love of One whose veins painted over our plague

Nails broke our chains

This bronze snake high, splayed wide

O, great white wolf

Fangs bite, burn, bane my curse

Grace died to bear striped birthmarks of a new household

A sunflower, Love's power just towered

Ages of estrangement undone in one hour

Proving master, He, at Calvary

Handcrafted the victory of victories

His wrists bridged rifts no other acts could stitch

This crucifixion cataclysmic for sin

And each of its children

So we could be in Him

Our birthright is a new hearth

Childlike, we, in its warmth

With joyous voices, sing

"God so loves you"

This sunrise gifted us daffodils

Hope's petals engraved on every page

A mantra for dawns bright, lullaby for anxious nights

That cross and cave reiterate

That He repaved our way to His chamber

The taste of His presence: pleasant

A nectar endlessly quenching

Faith: its entrance

Take a gamble

I swear this love won't fail you