Sins Absolved

Knees on tile

Cold on my skin

Counting all the ways

I let the darkness in

Burnt-out prayers

Written in smoke

Every promise that I broke

Still hangs in my throat

Sins absolved

When you say my name

You touch my scars

They don't burn the same

You take the blame

From the weight I hauled

I fall

I fall

And find my sins absolved

You trace the cracks

Down my shaking hands

Say

You're more than

Every shattered plan

Black ink thoughts

Running down the drain

You wash the chapters

Stained in shame

If I confess the worst of me

Will you stay

Will you stay?

You turn my gallows to a gate

Swinging open to a brighter day