Who Can Really Forgive Us?

Who can really forgive us... if not God Himself whose love for us is measured by endless kindness? I tried to forgive others, and although the grudge is forgotten, the unpleasant images, the hurtful words and the evident pain... are hardly revoked by the indelible pen! God, ease my torment and sleeplessness, to let my bitterness end! I can't pretend that all is well... that they are forgiven when resentment still avenges as a sword piercing the flesh...making it bleed; and as any human being, with faults and imperfections, I must look to you Lord: to gather my strength and forgive them! Nothing I will hold back while I am being cleansed, and if tears fall, it is the pity towards me, not them... for not having been kind enough to have confronted my greed! Show me one person who has not sinned, and among those who dislike this truth... that individual won't be me; pretentious honesty is the biggest lie which makes us stare in a fogged-up mirror without prospective; examine the glances of liars who deceive by appearance, and more than us they cling to uncertainty... to hide and deny the turmoil of their fretful thoughts! Who can really forgive us... without ever remembering our sins? Society is too proud to humble itself, to extend understanding and forgiveness; it is God who pities us and desires to save our wretched souls: to make them shine with a celestial light when clouds abound, forbidding storms to trouble our inner peace... and has anyone ever exalted Him with a loud sound? Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci