Unclean! Unclean! I’m unclean! 

Chants the leper, his misery unseen.

Priest declared the leper’s flaw 

Pronouncing isolation - the ritual law. 

Oh the isolation he goes through 

Away from friends and kindreds too. 

Doomed to be with similarly afflicted 

Lepers together were strictly restricted. 

Everything he touched became unclean

Agony and shame made him scream 

Polluting air by his own breath 

Regarded it worse than his death. 

Seeing Jesus healing the lame, 

The blind, the paralytic and the maim. 

The leper’s heart fills with happiness

As he saw the Healer’s tenderness. 

The leper now knows whom to approach

Though the people on his way to reproach 

Runs to Christ to find all he had hoped

Fell at His feet before he got groped. 

Unclean! Unclean! I’m unclean! 

Throughout the life this is my scream! 

I am a leper to others it’s unseen

But through my sins my leprosy seen 

I, like the leper, found the cleansing place 

Fell at Jesus’ knees covering my sinful face

He is faithful to cleanse me from sin 

And brought me far from where I’ve been. 

If you are a leper and in need of a redeemer 

Join me at His feet where you’ll be freer 

There’s Grace for all men and women 

We will sing together and say amen!

Martin Raj

10.24.2020