Victim

Silence inflexible I am inexorable For how else can forgiveness be If I explain I could bridge the gulf here worthily Of unshed tears for me But how thin that line Where Adam's complain gave her the cross he should have borne I cannot die with her again For I surrendered to my cross Am already dead to her I bear this not as a loss But as an unutterable pain Carrying their guilt upon me like a stain Is what forgiveness demands I shall have no glory If I will they will have joy Dismantling what's left of me I am unperturbed But unconsolable Is the silence That guards this Adam's penitence