I,N,K,L,L,Y

I NEVER KNEW LOVE LIKE YOUR'S. I never knew you could love me the way that you have shown. Beatings of physical cruelty, it's all I've ever known. Beatings upon beatings with eyes swollen black-n-blue, is all I've ever known, that was until I met you. Here you are, so gentle with a loving embrace you show you care. It's hard for me to tell you all, my love, it's hard to share. And still you are so gentle, a loving kindness you release. Your patients, it astounds me with a new love you increase. Slowly painful memories locked up in my mind find escape and are released as into light from darkness like a spring I suddenly unwind the dreadful hidden memories pour out my bleeding mind. The floodgates as they open wide like a river running wild. I hear a gentle spoken voice, "Your safe with me my child." As I release that painful time when pain was all I knew my broken heart began to mend as I leaned on and trusted you. My Father it's by your Grace I live, now sheltered in your love I want you to know I have let go, forgiven all that he has done. So lost is he in addiction begging to be free. Oh Lord I pray you hear him, just like you once heard me.