Born a Servant
Where is the better birth of a servant?
The mouth of a beast, the waves of the sea
or the bend of a mother's heart beat?
Swimming through the sewage of salvating fluid,
he stumbled in the mouth of the beast
the mouth of the thief who took every part of his being
A ship coursed for the rush of the deep,
he rode every word in a state of debris
it was all he could hold
all he could cling to
He sought fear, it failed him
anguish drove his mind, forbade him
Drowning in a growing sea of shattered dreams between the sweat on his brow, the tears in his
eyes
and the raging flood within
he was sinking in the abyss of his own self pity
in the mouth of an
ignorant stranger
He rode the surface of this fleshly foundation
sliding down the tract of digestive devastation
Yet, something burned inside him
and he knew it wasn't the end
Falling into the arms of the unknown
he embraced the warm touch of the blue
feeling its tender love like sweet little kisses
dancing on the edges of his skin
and he found he could breathe again
when freedom sung from the depths of his lungs
In the bosom of this naval blanket
the world was his to gain
But where was the world in this void of timelessness?
Everything endless, without purpose
a cloud soaring through a vacant sky
not a spec of white found in the eye
He realized he was victimized to the trap of this lullaby
the arms beneath him dropped
and the chains of death locked the very breath that sustained him
His lips ran from the sting of his lungs
but his voice was already gone
And those same black hands began to close his lowely eyelids, dragging him down
Since they thought he was dead
Beneath the weight of his chest, a beat ceases to be bent
The stench of his journey, the tears that he wept, met by the scent of what he calls
"home"
A fire ignites the marrow in his bones
Though he may be alone, he knows exactly where he roams
Itching in his ears, love pounds against the walls of his soul. He's made to feel alive
But he lacks control
Dying inside-- his bones illuminate with the white strength it captivates
But they can't escape
the poison that make them feel "safe"
Tearing through the tissue of his heart's dissolve,
the pang in his chest wasn't love at all
Exploding inside his weary mind
A snap of a pulse
rise to fall
on the surface of a cold reality
the connection of his life to her drunken iniquity
Stricken with the burden of her sin and shame
left for dead
an empty hotel room
nothing to gain
From the depths of his chest, his heart began to scream
curdling his lungs, the presence of nicotine
Battered in the substance of shattered glass, ethanol's decay
he was born for sin's desire
and this was the only way
Shining through the coating of his black and blue body
breaking through the chains suffocating his anatomy
Love was presented in the hands of Savior
through the nails that were driven in the scars untailored
Written in the blood that flows from Calvary, life was revised
when He signified His name
At the foot of the cross, every man stands the same
Born to be broken
so He can be gained
From the highest palace, full of riches and gold
to the waste of the city, where the people grow old
Truth be told, servants are made in life's commission
But to whom does they serve?
That is the difference