Altar

Your whirlwind into my life then you disappear

And Just when I'm picking up the pieces off the ground you bring an earthquake and swallow them up.

Just when my tears start to fall you bring a monsoon and drown me.

I look up to ask God why and you scorch the sky with a hurricane.

I seek comfort to regain strength and erupt a volcano and burn my inner piece with lava.

You strip me, you take from me, you leave me bare and broken

I didn't know looking in your eyes was going to be an apocalypse.

There's nothing I relied on still intact, 

Shield and spare lost in the waves...of you.

But it was what you required

It was what you needed

The love you were about to give needed me to walk away from everything before I met you.

You needed me exposed, you needed me vulnerable.

Something so powerful yet fragile at the same time.

But your request was simple...me and nothing else.

I let your whirlwind in, 

I nodded to your earthquake, 

I stepped aside for your monsoon and 

I sacrificed my peace in your fire

What you showed me you were giving me

The price is understood

The price is paid.

I am delivered.