God, I tried.

from The Eyes of the Skin by Slow Rosary

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God, I tried.
God, I know you saw me with a thousand pairs of eyes,
Maybe more. You could count them much quicker than I,
But God, we both know that I tried.
So why’d you plan
That my cross would be made of feeling like I didn’t do all that I can
Or could’ve done?
But God, we both know I didn’t try to run.

Please can I
Stop choosing anything? I’ll let you decide.
Just keep me fed. Just keep me alive,
Or don’t. If I can be with you, I’ll die
A hundred times.
And if you made her feel better, I’d cry and cry and cry.
Even if I’d never hear from you or her again,
Well I, I’d be alright.

She took the cold,
But you took it and gave it back to me. It’s mine to hold.
And now I pray for mostly me for fifty prayers or so
And for her for twenty or ten more.
Just three days.
You went to hell and came right back and then we all were saved.
It seems so easy when I hear it or when I read the page.
Why can’t I feel right for just one day?

God, I tried
To be who I thought you’d want me to be. Can you decide
What I do with the next couple of hours of my life?
For this second, I’ll just shut my eyes.

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from The Eyes of the Skin, released November 23, 2018

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