We walk in the empty places
Under skies that magnify deficit
Knowing ourselves inadequate:
He has taken away our shame.
We sit alone with our mocking
mirrors
We dare not own our tears:
Creatures of shadow to avoid all
confrontation,
He has taken away our shame.
We are the sullied ones
We didn’t go the distance
Fell in the mud by the wayside:
He has taken away our shame.
We feared the sun by day,
Avoided the moon by night
Asked for the rocks to hide us:
He has taken away our shame.
Bullied, reduced, uncertain,
Victims of humiliation
Shredded by mocking laughter:
He has taken away our shame.
We stream to the place of
forgiveness,
He lifts up our shame-bent faces
Washes us in pure water:
He has taken away our shame.
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