you want to know someone's heart? listen to their words

i was hurting so much
and i was cut down, like a treein the forest, a living thing being torn apart.
cut deep, dark, a cold chain ripping me, slicing open,
to the point where i almost wanted to cut myself down
just to see the blood and the pain drip away, so i could try and forget it all. never go back. be gone
but then i remember. i remember
i remember that someone bled for me. FOR ME.
that someone could bleed more that i could even imagine.
with holes in your hands, you fillend the hole in my heart.
a perfect lining, a perfect plug, the most perfect thing to complete the empty space.
and i wish that everyone could see, and
that everyone could experience the love that You gave to me.
the love that You gave to us, the love that is here for all.
you died so that i may live, that we may live, and have eternal life
and i can hardly even fathom it.
how could it be possible? how could You willingly walk into the hands of death?
how could You love that much? so much that You would be tortured, torn apart, cut down like that tree, a chain ripping you apart?
metal on skin, metal through skin
and i don't understand why You did it, but i am forever grateful, and i'm thankful that i'm forgiven.
i never actually saw you bleed, but i believe. i'm thankful that i believe.
so thankful.
eternally.