The Bible Didn’t Keep Me Warm

I held that book close to my chest When the wind cut deep through my best They told me it could shield the soul But it never stopped the cold

I read the red, I sang the hymns But frost still bit beneath the limbs No parable or sacred page Could heat the nights I died with rage

The Bible didn’t keep me warm It just gave me words I couldn’t form While my hands shook and fire died It never wrapped me up inside So I burned the pages one by one Not out of hate — just lack of sun The Bible didn’t keep me warm... But I held it anyway

I prayed like someone in a script With hollow lines and trembling lips And though they swore He always hears The silence stretched for all my years

I don’t blame the ones who kneel But some of us were made to feel The kind of cold no verse can thaw The kind that never bends to law

The Bible didn’t keep me warm Didn’t stop the endless storm They told me “faith will be enough” But I needed more than paper love So I wrapped in coats and whiskey breath And waited out the frost of death The Bible didn’t keep me warm... But I tried to believe

The Bible didn’t keep me warm Didn’t light the dark before the dawn But it was something I could hold When no one else was near the cold So I’ll leave it by the bed I made For someone else who feels the fade The Bible didn’t keep me warm... But maybe it will for them

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