Father, Free Them

A Lament for the Bound and the Beloved

Existing in cages
Is comfortable and safest
Learning to follow the rules
Turns love into something cruel.

Knowing where they belong
Makes them right and others wrong
Anyone different than their mold
Will be left out in the cold.

Father, free them from their prisons
Help them know that Christ has risen
Once they learn of your loving grace
Joy and peace will renew their faith
Lord, help them open their hearts,
Give them a safe place to start

Keepers of cages play God
Smoke and mirrors, applause
Pretending to hold the keys
That only our Savior has received

Casting spells on the innocent
Making souls feel insufficient
Pleading for mercy, distraught.
But the cage was never locked

No, the cage wasn't even locked

Father, free them from their prisons
Help them know that Christ has risen
Once they learn of Your loving grace
Joy and peace will renew their faith
Lord, help them open their hearts,
Give them a safe place to start