Redemption

My eyelids are lead-weights

I lift them anyways, to see you

My shoulders sag beneath the burdens I've gained

Still, I would find the strength in me to carry yours

My lips hesitate to form the words, sometimes

Yet they're ever quick to kiss you

My thoughts seem to take the lowest roads

Lately, they soar just to catch a glimpse of you

My skin leather'd from a bitter day's work

You tell me it isn't rough to your touch

I count my scars, sometimes they seem endless anymore

Before you come, and I forget their names

I took the stage a villain before

And bowed before the audience, the protagonist

The shadows cleared from around my name

I rearrange the letters, to spell out my dreams

My life before, spilt ink on this page

Now writing deliberate, the words that set me free

For all my darkest moments shine

Under the diffused light of gray skies

I am not an angel made, surely

But a sinner who has learned to fly.