I Am Mine, I Am My Own

I have spent too much time Searching out for your approval, For your go ahead for me to do Anything within this world But now I say: I am mine, I am my own. I will not strip down naked for you Bear out the blessings of God to you For you and your weak pleasures, For this is mine and mine alone For now I know: I am mine, I am my own. I am no longer tangled Within your chain of lies, Your assumptions of who I am, What I have to be As now I know: I am mine, I am my own. I am not afraid of you any more, I no longer fear your shadow, Though you come bearing guns, I stand with the armor of spirit Knowing very well that: I am mine, I am my own.