Negative Conviction

The time for speaking clear

Has never been more clearly here

It's okay if you’re afraid of what's to come

Leave the time for being shocked

Frozen on a different clock

It's okay - come to grips with what’s been done

There's no sin

They won't claim

It's theirs alone to reframe

As a virtue handed down from on high

And it's perverse and grotesque

But hold your heart

Keep your head

There's no joy, therе's no love behind their еyes

It's all negative conviction

And it’s eating them alive inside

If you’re scared what's been lost carries far too steep a cost

I understand

It would be weirder if you weren’t

And if you're scared we're dead and done

What's the point? The monsters won

It’s okay

It's a strong, convincing current

But a lie is still a lie

However ably amplified

At the core is a hole holding nothing

If you feel small and ashamed

It's designed to work that way

Don't attach

Find the light, and just keep running

From their negative conviction

Cynical, insidious, and crushing

I mean - they tried to steal Jesus Christ

Turn him bitter, cruel, and blind

Wrapped in razor wire, stock exchange, and blood lust

It's perverse & grotesque

Because what I heard & what I read

Said love's alive and it animates our oneness

And no negative conviction

Gets to dig inside and take that meaning from us