sanctuary

The blade bites deeper into the soft flesh

it will not let me be free

it wants me

I won't let it have me

the blood pays for my freedom in sin

every cut is a pathway to righteousness.

I double the pressure and drag the blade,

it cuts deeper.

your words are my sin

my thoughts are your prey

I twist and turn but it, you, won't let me live

"I can't breathe!" I cry

"learn to breathe in the blood," you say to me

as though blood was better than oxygen.

I have learned that blood pays.

It gives better than any oxygen... 

I now have become the scars on me,

in me,

you have swallowed me whole.

I am now new in you, I find life in you.

you are my sanctuary.