The People Who Share My Name

Listen Up

These are the things I've been dying to say to you

I won't engage in conversation littered with self-righteous rage

Because before the words were out of my mouth

You already judge what I have to say

If you ripped me open

Instead of judging my surface

Through pretense and hidden purpose

You would truly find a heart

Stamped with the name

Of whom I give my service

Division

Despite best intentions

Dissonance,

None truly exists

Except that

Which was created

By biased hands

Love has called me out

Of who I've been

To bring me to the right hand

And dine with Him

So keep slander from your tongues

Lest you be wrung

And found to be wanting

Of the Love that has redeemed everything

Division

Despite best intentions

Dissonance,

None truly exists

Except that

Which was created

By biased hands

Give grace freely away

Instead of claiming for yourself the blessings of YHWH

You twist the tool that was meant to light the way

Into a creature of your own

Peddling hate

The only abominations are those that we create

You have ripped apart the broken limb from limb

You have separated parents from their own kids

How dare you speak of grace

While you wave your signs of hate right in our face

All the lives you've ruined

The souls you've turned away

How are we supposed to fly

If you clip our wings?

This is not Ecclesia the way He meant for it to be

Keep bastardizing his name

One day you'll be set free

From this religion

All the false glory and fame

Look in the eyes of a broken man and keep telling him that he's the one to blame

And you wonder why I'm hesitant to share your name

Because you've missed the point completely

And I hate your hate