You love the way I burn for you But curse what sets me on fire You want the rose Without the root grown deep in darkness You say it cuts you deep That I kneel for something more But this is how I breathe How I rose up from the floor You hold me when I’m shining But flinch from what I’ve seen You love the light inside me But not the God who made me queen You speak of holy hurting As if it came between But I was ashes, darling Before He called me clean This love you say is foreign This ecstasy, this fire It’s not betrayal, it’s survival It’s the love that pulled me higher You only love the flame But not the spark that made it You kiss the glowing skin Then shame the One who raised it I wouldn’t be this woman Without the gift He gave You say you’re hurt by Heaven But it’s Heaven that you crave I held your trembling heart When mine was barely whole He taught me how to do that To hold, to touch, to soul And now you call it cheating When He’s my true existence And if I turn from Him You’d kill our coexistence Do you want me hollowed out Just to make you feel secure? Would you crush the sacred altar That made this love endure? I am more than flesh and skin I’m forged in flame and praise If you want this living woman You must honor how she prays You only love the flame But not the spark that made it You kiss the glowing skin Then shame the One who raised it If I put out this fire There’d be no light to save So tell me, do you love me? Or just the shadow that I gave? You say you're hurt by Heaven... But Heaven made me stay Without Him, I was fading And you would’ve walked away
