Monday, June 22, 2009

THE END CRIES (BREATHE)

Please take these thing from me
All the pain and memories
I don’t want to remember
I don’t want to feel
No more
Please leave me be
All the worry and concern
Is drowning me
I can barley breathe
Right now
Oh I have been a fool
I have been misled
I have been the deceiver
Now I just want to live
Alone
Please help me forget to remember
All the things I promised
I could never keep
I had no intention
No possibility
Please forgive my weakness
All I wanted was to be liked
I don’t even like me
I don’t even want to be around
This man
If God can forgive me
If I can accept his love
If I can just believe
Is this enough
Is this a new beginning
Don’t know
Don’t think
Don’t ask
Don’t breathe
Please take this sin from me
All this darkness I have been living in
I can’t do this anymore
I can’t even see a way out
So lost
Where did my right go
Where did my wrong go
Can’t even tell anymore
Can’t even see the line
I should never have crossed
Please Lord hear me
I am at the end of this life
I can’t see no way out
But through Your mercy
But through Your grace
Wrapped up in Your love
Wash me clean
Speak Your truth in me
Breathe

Angel Barreto

Sunday, June 14, 2009

HOW QUICKLY

I started out this morning
With a prayer on my lips
I started with praises of You
With my hands lifting me
Oh how quickly the praises quite
How quickly the tongue gives in
To words better left unsaid
Much less kept in thought
I started to get on my knees
With every intention for confessing
I started to then
Found complaints raised against my neighbors
Oh how fast these complaints
How fast the accusations
To justify my actions
In the name of Jesus Your Son
Oh when will I submit
Oh when will pride break
Oh when will I stop making
Your name a word of mockery
Teach me to be humble
Cause me to walk in Your ways
May I consider all that I can in the flesh
As good as dead
May I know that all I was before
Lies defeated in the grave
Forgive my ease at lifting
Myself above the crowd
I started out this morning
With a prayer on my lips
How quickly the words became
The sound of a complaint
I tried to change the wording
To make myself sound good
How often pride sounds like
The holiness of God
I started out this morning
With praise coming forth
My song of joy at living
My praise for all I have
Did I once again forget to
Thank You Lord for all You did
In death on the cross
In rising to bring new life
How quickly so quickly
So soon I do forget
 
Angel Barreto