Undone

I have stood where the seraphim covered their eyes Where the smoke filled the room and the doorposts shook Where the words dried to dust on the lips of the wise And the holiest men could not bear to look There is something that happens to bones made of clay When they come within reach of that terrible light Every prophet and king had the same thing to say I am ruined — and yet I survived the night But You did not leave them in the dust You never have Every trembling soul that fell before You Found Your hand Who are You that the heavens cannot hold Who are You that the broken find their way home Every throne room shakes at the sound of Your name Yet You stop — for the ones no one else would claim Holy — and near Terrifying — and tender I fall at Your feet And You call me — Your own There are those who reached out in the dark Through the crowd, through the shame, through the years Not a sermon or song — just a desperate heart And You stopped — as if nothing else was there On a cross between criminals, kingdoms were born With a word — not a ritual — not a rite You don't ask for the cleaned up, the settled, the restored You just ask — do you want to have life And You do not leave us in the dust You never have Every trembling soul that fell before You Found Your hand Who are You that the heavens cannot hold Who are You that the broken find their way home Every throne room shakes at the sound of Your name Yet You stop — for the ones no one else would claim Holy — and near Terrifying — and tender I fall at Your feet And You call me — Your own Not the strong Not the certain Not the ones with clean hands You have always chosen What the world would not have And You speak — and the dead hear And You touch — and the blind see And I fall — not from terror But because You are everything Who are You that the heavens cannot hold Who are You that the broken find their way home Every throne room shakes at the sound of Your name Yet You stop — for the ones no one else would claim Holy — and near Terrifying — and tender I fall at Your feet And You call me — Your own You call me Your own You call me Your own You call me Your own