Alone

Am I a barren temple left for newer ways

Of speaking mysteries my veils cannot contain?

Should I prepare to winter spans again of silent

Centuries pierced for only certain men?

What if I wake to find you've gone?

What if your presence was withdrawn

And I was mistaken all along to think I could become your home?

It'd be no surprise to finally know

That I am truly alone

Come death but likely sooner I'll be alone

You moved your temple inside our bones and

It's so hard to trust that you

Won't move again

For all eternity

You stood with your father in perfect unity

And when you walked the earth

You only went where he led

You only spoke what he said

So for everything you left

And all of the glory you forfeit

No matter how

Low you were sent, you still couldn't know

What it's like to be alone

Disgraced but you were never alone

Betrayed but you were never alone

Tortured but still never alone and

Nothing is worse than being alone

I have been thinking hard about us trading places

That maybe I could wear

Your beauty if you put on my shame

Jesus I've been trying so hard to look like

You that I almost missed the

Worst of what I put you through

You didn't die for sins, you died covered in them

A prideful lying thief

Gasping out my final breaths

For that one moment you looked just like me

So your father left you and you

Died completely alone

For me, you were alone

He couldn't bear it so he left you all alone

No better promise than true sympathy

You conquered death all alone

'Cause you've known the deepest of all our needs

Never again, never alone