This is a poem I wrote back in the beginning of July, when I felt like something was wrong w/ my relationship w/ Marcus. A week later he dumped me.

Mercy

I caught a glimpse
I try to find it but it slips away again
Oh angels, take me into a dream again
My heart cries for what it can't see.
Oh hell take me quickly
and have more mercy on me than love has.

Don't leave me this way
Do I have to twist your arm to get the answers I need?
Oh angels open the heart to bleed it clean.
Oh hell take me fast
and have more mercy on me than love has.

I need you in your every unspoken word,
and every word that says too much.
Oh love, you leave me haunted
with the ghosts of things lost and dying.
Oh angels, take away the veil so I can see again.
Oh hell, take me fast
and have more mercy on me than love has.
Sweet mercy rain on me like fire.
©Angela McElhiney