I Give Up

I am giving up
I am giving in
I am bending down
and letting in


All that you would want for me
All that you could take away
From my joy to fears
passion and tears
Love and Lust
pride and trust


take and give all that must
be given and gone
to make me strong
to make me bold
to make me love
to make me hope
to perfect this creature
that you are trying to mold.

Perfect this heart
perfect this soul
perfect my eyes
to see clearly your goal

beyond the chaos
beyond the tears
clear my head
so blurry from fears
lift my heart so heavy from shame
Call me out with a new name


let the old be gone
ashes and dust
the new arise
with purity to trust

that you are there
and will not leave
will not walk away
will not forsake me.


Give me the ability to not just love myself
but to love others who hurt with guilt
who are over looked and oppressed
who feel inadequate to clean up their own mess
who don't understand they don't have to be like the rest.

Give me a love to show their possibility to let go
their Possibility to love
their possibility to grow
their possibility to get out
Their possibility to give up their sin for holy control.


Possibility to be loved
possibility to hope
possibility to let go
of addictions and foe's

possibility for life
possibility for freedom
possibility for being some thing more
then the others would have named them.


that they are not just another
the unnamed or unnoticed.
That they are the eternal
created to be one of the purest.

Let me not forget to open my eyes
when I look around as this world cries
when I see the little girl that weeps
when I see the boy hungry, unable to sleep.

Let me not forget to act on what i see
that you open my eyes to take hold of the opportunity
To show your love, to show your grace
To take away burdens and tell them your name.

the name of love of hope of peace
the name of grace in which i seek.
the name of freedom that will break the chains
with nails and a cross used to kill you in place of me.