Shatter the Mirror

So I live in this poverty

Hard days and sleepless nights

Late to bed and early to rise

And still I face into the wind

You may judge me true

But please wait your turn

And get in the line

For you’re not the first

And you may be surprised

Or maybe again you won’t

For at the front of the line

Look carefully and take note

For the first one there

The one with the biggest stone

The one most ready to fight

Well, he wears my face

A strange thing is this judgment

This unwanted pity

This failure to understand

Introspection a dying art

You see I’ve observed this truth

And it’s really no mystery

We are often our own worst critic

No enemy so venomous as the self

So I challenge us both

I throw down this gauntlet

Scream out my barbarian cry

And then I whisper so very quiet

Let’s break these mirrors

For if I have learned even one thing

Gleaned one truth from this journey

Then it would be this one nugget

This one goad to move us forward

To break these ghostly chains

Is the key to a better future

And, you will not regret it

Won’t waste another tear

Gaze instead into your Saviors eyes

Look into them and see

See the love unearned

And, yet freely given

Demonstrated in nail scars

We are bought at dearest price

Rescued from darkness

And carried into a new day

A better future now assured

Our reflection not misplaced again

Not found in enemies lies

Not found in mirrors’ deception

But instead in dear Father’s gaze