Like Jesus

The weight I carry

Feels like the weight of the world

But I use all of my strength

And bare the pain

Regardless if it’s deserved…

To spare you.

I’ll take the blows

The kicks and the punches

The harsh realities

That make you sick to your stomach.

I’ll trust in the Lord

Most don’t understand

How I’d do anything for those I love

Until the very end

When I tell you I love you

I mean it

With all of my being.

Loyal to the soil

And there’s only one way you’ll believe it

If that means, I’ll be crucified – like Jesus

So be it.

I do it proudly

So that the pain doesn’t bleed

Into those around me

Self sacrificial,

I’ll keep

the bad sows,

And let it reap…

And that’s official.

I don’t care what you’ve done

If it has to be me…it will be

It’s engrained in the man I’ve become

It’s not an exchange,

Or something I’ve received

I bare it all, myself

Because of who you are to me

No place to hide,

No place to run

I stand tall in the rain

Under shade,

clouding the sun

And even then…

When I soak and absorb

I remind myself

Who all of this was for

And I came to realize,

Right before it was done

Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for

Is the one holding the gun.

So, I carry this weight..

Use all of my strength

And I can feel it…

That I carried it all

To be crucified…like Jesus