Child of God

He’s a child of God
No more no less
And I can’t tell you why he took it
Where he did but if pressed
I’d have to say
There was something missing something wrong
Something deep down inside him
And he knew it all along
Now there were signs some say
Looking back today
He ran these hills alone
His parents gone
One dead one beat down
He answered to no one
His the driest eyes in town
But that don’t measure how he sees it all
When there’s no one else around
And that moon shines
Tiny corners he finds them
And the wind blowing circles
In and out his mind
Is that him crying
Outside some window silhouette
It’s blood and noise and
His heart’s poison from the start
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Now there’s nothing moving
In that dark deserted night
He lays face down in the weeds
And his eyes clinched tight
And his ears hear all everything
The shadows call he hears them sing
Converging right here
Urging him and his fears
They carry him along
And they found her down
In a culvert bound
She was beaten she was bruised
She was dead and he had used her
And even the strongest
Had to turn their face away
Their stomachs buckle
Things unthinkable
Too horrible to say
And the good sheriff smiled
As he jerked that chain
And the newspapers and photographers
They described and glorified it
All so well in such detail
He can’t explain it or remain
It just means nothing to him now
He’s a child of God
Tell me what that means
All the empty and the angry
Left out in between encompassing
All I ever was or been
Nothing in the eyes of God
Nothing in the eyes of men
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