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Forgive To Live

Refusing to forgive someone’s fault no matter the pouring rain Is holding a fiery coal in one hand no matter the pain So put your hand in the flowing Jordan river Let your memories flow away without a remaining sliver In the river of your mother’s tears shed ages ago From the transgression we have done but only a few know We are all guilty of wrongdoing and our mother’s mourn We are all that fallen angel of light last to be born Who abandoned her house and fell into this life of disruption Who lost her bright innocence and gave birth to corruption God does not reach out with a burned hand to inflict shame But with a hand clean and untouched by any flame Every human lives in an intense fog in which they cannot see With only burning coals in their hands lighting some way to be free Though these do not break through the grey swarm that we tread Only fortifies the fog with grey smoke and ash, hence why it was said “Father, forgive them, no matter what I go through For they do not know what they do”

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