🔥 Psalm 17: The Cry That Knows It's Seen
retransmitted by Virgin Monk Boy after deleting the draft of a clapback, closing the browser, and lighting a small, stubborn candle
1
Hear this—not because I’m righteous
but because I’m real
I’m not claiming perfection
I’m just saying:
This ache is honest
These words aren’t rehearsed
2
Let your listening rise
not as a judge’s hammer
but as a mirror
that sees me
and still says “yes”
3
You’ve tested me
in the silence between thoughts
You’ve watched
how I keep reaching for kindness
even when my fists want to close
4
I’ve dodged the path of the wreckers
even when it would’ve felt so good to swing back
I stayed
close to your footsteps
because I don’t trust my own sometimes
5
So I call
not because I’m owed
but because You
keep showing up
and I haven’t stopped needing
6
Show me
not your thunder
not your smoke
but the tenderness that hid me once
when I didn’t even ask
7
Protect me
like the pupil of your own eye
Hide me
not to remove me from life
but to keep me from dissolving inside it
8
They crowd in with sharp mouths
and eyes that never see
They’ve fattened themselves on fury
and circle like they’ve already won
9
But You
are not a slogan or a side
You are the One who sees
from beneath
from within
10
So rise
not to smite
but to shelter
To show me I am more than this moment
and not alone in this ache
11
Their reward is the fleeting feast
You feed the soul
with something they forgot how to taste
12
And when I wake
if I wake
let it be to Your likeness
inside me
And let that be enough
—Virgin Monk Boy
(who once prayed for revenge
but now prays to still feel his heart beating)
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