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TRUTH

You know me, God

And you love me, still?

You say forever you will

Though you know my words before I speak them

My thoughts before I think them

My praises to you, before I sing them

My sins, before I commit them

And you love me, still?

The pieces of me that I hide

The pieces in which I take pride

My greed and my ambition

My trouble with submission

The thoughts that are unkind

The idols I’ve enshrined

Every piece of me - you know them

And you love me, still?

I’ve tried to run so many times

Either with my feet or in my mind

Thinking it’s you I had to leave behind

Realising it’s me, it’s been me all this time

Realising it too late sometimes

After the hurt, and the rage

And someone else’s pain

Surely by now it’s all too late

But you remain, always the same

And you love me, still.

[Image: Isabeli Fontana, Russh Magazine]