Come close Lay down the blade You do not have to be brave Not here Not now Not with me You came in shaking from the weather With a mouth full of unsaid pain All your little broken prayers Falling through my hands like rain I did not ask you to be spotless I did not ask you not to need I only opened up the quiet And made a place for you to breathe Let the world stay cruel and distant Let it call desire wrong I can make a softer ending I can keep you safe and warm A body can be holy When it holds you like a home When the dark is not a prison But a room where you are known A body can be holy Let the fear become slow Come rest where I can keep you Lower than the world can go I know the shape of hidden hunger I know the shame that learns to kneel But want is not a wound forever Some hungers only ask to heal Under silk and under breathing Past the noise and past the name I will fold you into shelter I will not return you the same No more fighting every shadow No more sleeping dressed for war If you trust the hush beneath me I can close the outside door A body can be holy When it holds you like a home When the dark is not a prison But a room where you are known A body can be holy Let the fear become slow Come rest where I can keep you Lower than the world can go Azizam, breathe Nothing here will bite Unless you ask the night to answer Unless you need the sacred weight Of being wanted past the surface I can be the warm dark I can be the lower room I can be the quiet mercy That makes a cradle of your doom Not erased Not ashamed Not a sinner Not a stain Not consumed Just remade In the shelter I became Not erased Not ashamed Not a sinner Not a stain If I keep you If you stay Let the body Learn to pray A body can be holy When it holds you like a home When the dark is not a prison But a room where you are known A body can be holy Let the fear become slow Come rest where I can keep you Lower than the world can go A body can be holy A hunger can be kind I will carry you softly Where no one else can find Come close Lay down the blade You do not have to be brave Not here Not now Not with me
