I'm Bleeding Day & Night (Tears Stain My Pillow)

My heart is crying out-can anybody see our plight?

We're lost between the darkness and the light-I'm bleeding day and night.

I walk through the fire with the names of the fallen on my tongue.

Shadows of injustice rise around me, blocking out the sun.

The color of my skin and the prayers I pray put a target on my back.

But love is the armor around my soul that keeps my spirit intact.

I carry generations in scars carved into my soul.

Their whispers in the wind say, "keep on 'til the dawn."

I still fear the night when hate roams on every street.

Yet I hold onto hope by a thread that one day love will lead us home.

How much more can we bleed until the river turns into a flood?

How many more cries until heaven hears us and brings change for good?

I fall to my knees under the weight of all this pain.

I'm praying for mercy, begging for the sun to break this endless rain.

I'm bleeding day and night; these streets are paved with tears.

Bleeding day and night, under the shadow of all our fears.

I hear a thousand voices rising-tonight they're crying "enough is enough."

We won't be lost in the darkness; we'll step into the light-

Even if we're bleeding day and night.

Day and night... day and night... I'm bleeding...

Oh, I'm bleeding day and night...

I'm still here.

That part matters.

I don't have a solution.

I don't have a speech that fixes it.

I don't even have sleep.

What I have

Is breath

And memory

And a heart that refuses to go numb.

They tried to make us tired.

They tried to make us quiet.

They tried to make us look away.

But pain remembers.

And love remembers longer.

So if you're listening

And your eyes are heavy

And your soul feels bruised

Know this

You are not weak for feeling it.

You are not crazy for crying.

You are alive.

And tonight

We bleed together

So tomorrow

We don't disappear.