There are pieces of me
Scattered everywhere
Every time they left
They took a piece away
My mind is busted
The lies they told
Dissembled it every time they spoke
My soul is chopped up
Like meat through a grinder
I’ve given my all
I hung my head
I have to pray
I call out to God
It’s a guttural cry
Help me
I scream over and over
I have to make sure he hears
I have to make him take notice
Help me
I hear a sound
It sounds like
Somebody being hurt
It’s a real-life passion of the Christ
But every time I hear a lash
Or some form of torture
A piece of me appears for a second
Then it disappears again
I’m confused
I can’t lose me
I start to panic
But then I look down
I look new
I look within
My heart is mended
My mind is intact
My spirit is whole
I hear something else
It sounds like a faraway announcement
He was wounded for our transgression
He was bruised for our iniquities
The chastisement of our peace was upon him
With his stripes we are healed
I’m on my feet running in circles going nowhere
Praise bubbles from everywhere
Worship exudes from my pores
Before I was ever born
Before I ever knew my name
Before I knew any pain
Before I was like humpty dumpty
With nobody to put me together again
Jesus was the only glue
He went to Calvary
Just for broken, lil, ol me
2010