Sin

Guilty as sin Because sin is past tense The deed has been done And not far hence What measure of you now Have been newly made To what pleasure did you bow Where vanity was paid How shall men see you For what you have done Can time someday heal What was seen by the sun Or is there someone waiting Who will remember the truth Is there someone hating Who would set your secret loose Guilt is an emotion Difficult to explain We name those two emotions Sometimes fear and sometimes shame Can you desire repentance Just for fear of God Has shame touched your conscious With feelings that are odd A soul that runs from justice Haunted by a past Always checking your shoulders Tell the lie told last Many years may pass Before the string in your labyrinth is found Those that matter will find the truth That your inextricably bound Will guilt and shame clear your name Or evil face appear When truth and facts finally attach After so many years We blame fate for so many things Especially our human flaws But still when things really matter We ignore our own laws Secrets, we should keep them For sometimes truth brings death Because blood is thicker than water And all that we have left We may give time all our secrets And wonder if time will forgive But time knows all our secrets And the fateful time to reveal