did you ever know that you're my hero?

[i_pickmyheadup]

i look beyond the empty cross.`forgetting what my life has cost.
and wipe away the crimson stains. and dull the nails that still remain.
more and more I need you now, i owe you more each passing hour.
the battle between grace and pride. i gave up not so long ago.
so steal my heart and take the pain. and wash the feet and cleanse my pride.
take the selfish, take the weak, and all the things i cannot hide.
take the beauty, take my tears. the sin-soaked heart and make it yours.
take my world all apart . take it now, take it now.
and serve the ones that i despise. speak the words i can't deny.
watch the world i used to love. fall to dust and thrown away.

i am the only one to blame for this. somehow it all ends up the same.
soaring on the wings of selfish pride. i flew too high and like ikaros i collide
with a world i try so hard to leave behind.
to rid myself of all but love, to give and die.

to turn away and not become.
another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves more deeply than the oceans,
more abundant than the tears of a world embracing every heartache.

[quote two]