Do you love me?
Enough to give up your will and choose mine?
To walk with me
Every single moment
Of every single day
Do you love me?
Does the fact that I know your every thought and still cherish you mean something to you?
Does the fact that I have
felt your pain
and endured greater struggles,
make you love me even more?
Do you love me on the days when you wake up
and fear courses through your veins like the blood that ran down my brow on the cross?
Do you love me?
Enough to stand watch as I kneel in the garden to pray
Do you love me?
Though you don't understand my methods or my ways
I hope so
No matter how many lashes came to greet my body that fateful night
I saw your shining face
I saw the whip in the hand of the woman whose life I would gladly save
I saw the fear tempered with anger on the face of the last man to drive the stake through my wrist
I felt
the tears behind the emotion
the despair behind the guilt
I felt them all
Bore them all
Became them for a season
I would do it all again
So I ask you now
Not out of necessity
But out of sheer desire
Do you love me?
Do you love me enough to share the pain masked by the problems of this world?
Do you love me enough to lay aside your emotional weapons and walk toward me?
I long for nothing more than to hold you in my arms whether you love me or not
To share with you my plan for your life
Heal your wounds
Right the wrongs
Do you love me?
Are the scars in your life there because of your efforts to sustain them?
My scars are proof of nothing more than the fact that I love you.
I was there when you sought comfort in the arms of another man
I held you both as you marinated in the duality of pain
I walked along with you
I called your name
It was my eyes you searched for
as you frantically scanned the crowd that night
When I met your gaze you quickly looked away
It was my hand that held you when you sobbed inner tears so great
that to birth them would have brought about unparalleled insanity.
I lifted you up when you had trouble seeing over the clouds
I made it possible that your every wish
Every desire could be fulfilled
One night
As I made the decision to give up my will
Combat the fear welling up inside me
With great tears of blood falling from my eyes
I gave up my own desires in this world
My very life was laid before you
Giving you the opportunity to live your life
So I ask you
With great anticipation
And a heart that rejoices each time a lost soul calls my name from the darkness
Do you love me?