Forgiveness

What does it mean to let go of the weight,

That drags you down inside?

What does it mean not to travel

Day by day nursing the injury?

Constantly feeding every bad and negative thought.

Constantly nursing all the reasons you are right.

We remove ourselves from identity,

We stand on the far shore of hurt

On our own island making it more and more

Fearful, silent, alone, scary, sheltered.

No one is allowed to share in this.

No one has known our injury.

All it fosters is terrible beasts,

A jungle of unkindness where we never rest

Afraid of not feeling hurt, not feeling wronged.

Unless we see with different eyes

We will die in this untamed jungle

Love calls us deeper, moves us further

Onto peaceful places we can't even

Imagine that they exist

We have convinced ourselves

They don't and we retreat further into

The brush. To hide from the very

Healing we are looking for.

Because we believe healing comes in revenge.

Yet that is not healing when we finally encounter it.

Healing only comes through the love of surrender.

Through the binding up of our wounds and sailing

Away from the lone jungle we have built.

Will you decide to sail away from the prison you have built?

Take a chance on the sea of forgiveness,

Which leads to a paradise unimagined.