Held His Peace

bathed in the river of Jordan another testament of cheap wine if liquors my only preacher then ill never have enough time (never enough time) to open my lips to you angel and say whats on my mind. can you forgive me? can you forgive my silence after all these weeks (a heart so full its been scared to speak) with what ive kept -can you accept ill come to you fully cleansed humble. quiet. crying. meek. your burning bright - i cant understand a flickering light (can you see past these hands?) to find ive denied and been held by another its hard to say im drunk and spent woken up in separate lives on beds that ill forget id save my last failing night with the person ive never met