A Long Way from the Heart

It’s just a flesh wound

A long way from the heart

Nowhere near a crucifixion

It won’t even leave a scar

Before I can stop the bleeding

Before I lick my wounds

Like a dog returning to its vomit

I’ll be returning too

To make another swan dive

At the shallow end of the pool

It’s blind faith that keeps me leaping

Lord I must look like a fool

You’re waiting at the deep end

While I wade where things are safe

The dives I keep attempting

Leave me wounded, sore and scraped

But it’s always just a flesh wound

You’ll never touch my deepest part

There’ll be no resurrection

Without a crucifixion of my stony heart

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.

And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you

a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)