Place Before Me

Place before me the wretched cross

The humiliation; the relentless pain

The hideous, immeasurable cost

The unfathomable weight of Your sufferings

The loneliness; the anguish

The sacrifice to redeem

Place before me the wretched cross.

Set before me the stone-cold grave

The eerie; the finality

Dooming darkness's domain

The deep grievous despair of loss

The fear; the fragility

The raw, jagged ache

Set before me the stone-cold grave.

Fix me on the hollow empty tomb

The triumph; the victory

Salvation's dawning day

But more----

The not-yet; the fierce, piercing longing

The death Death will one day die

Fix me on the hollow empty tomb.