Rejected

I lit a match in the chapel, watched the silence catch flame

Wrote your name in the margins of a book that cursed my name

I begged for mercy in the mirror, but the glass just stared me down

And the echo said “You’re nothing,” in a voice that wore your crown

I was chosen, then discarded

Like a prayer that went unheard

You built me up with holy hands

Then broke me with your word

I’ve been rejected, by heaven and by you

Left in the shadows, where the faithful come unglued

You said I was your promise, your shelter in the storm

But now I’m just a warning, a soul that won’t transform

I’ve been rejected—like a psalm you never sang

Like a cross you never carried, like a ghost without a name

I walked the line between devotion and despair

Tried to find redemption in the ashes of your stare

You were the altar, I was bleeding at your feet

But you turned your back so gently, like it didn’t mean defeat

I was sacred, then forgotten

Like a vow you never kept

You kissed me like a savior

Then left me where I wept

I’ve been rejected, by heaven and by you

Left in the shadows, where the faithful come unglued

You said I was your promise, your shelter in the storm

But now I’m just a warning, a soul that won’t transform

I’ve been rejected—like a psalm you never sang

Like a cross you never carried, like a ghost without a name

I still wear your silence like a crown of thorns

Still pray to a God who never mourns

If love was the fire, then I was the smoke

If you were the truth, then I was the joke

I’ve been rejected, by heaven and by you

Left in the shadows, where the faithful come unglued

You said I was your promise, your shelter in the storm

But now I’m just a warning, a soul that won’t transform

I’ve been rejected—like a psalm you never sang

Like a cross you never carried, like a ghost without a name

Rejected…

And still I wait

Still I wait

For grace that never came