with you, i am finally clean

How can you still
Stay with me?
I am such a broken
Soul with no
Redeeming qualities
I am in the dirt
Weeping in the
Refuse of the ugliness
Of my words, my actions
I clutch the rag to
My bleeding chest trying
To clean myself for you
I want to be pure again
To be innocent and delicate
And lovely white
But I can’t remove the
Stains of where I have been
Who I’ve become
Will you stay with me
And wait for me to wash and
Claw the ugliness
From my soul?
But you say
“Let me sit with you”
And you settle into the
Gutter with me
Holding my hand
Kissing the scars
From my arms, my
Legs, my broken heart
Where you touch
I am clean
Where you are
I am white
When you are
With me
I am whole
And pure
And delicately
Innocent in your
Love. This is truth
This is peace
This brokenness
Was a love song
Leading me back
To you