Forgetting Forgiveness
A concept assumed unattainable,
pushed away in effort without notice.
How unfortunate our views of an answer.
How sad our lack of faith.
Forgiveness, viewed upon by man
to be seen instead as cowardice,
when all along its strength alone
waits as the key to victory.
How long must it lie in disuse,
to remember its former command?
The rescue of life from an ending,
now traded for quicker destruction.
Though left in unbound isolation,
alone we cannot say it slept.
Together it waits with solution.
The remembrance of the divine to forget.
Forgetting, seen by the many,
as ignorance put in its stead.
How sorry I feel for the people,
blind with revenge, bound to they're hate,
teaching others to waste they're care.
And though they share this total contempt,
its history has had a ceasing.
Once, the formula was given to grow.
And how could we have thrown this lesson away?
Can we again see its answer?
To forgive and forget.
A plan reserved not only for the few,
those above, those in power, those with wisdom,
but residing within us all.
Waiting patiently to be used again,
to heal this broken existence,
and once again bring peace and understanding
to a once peacefully understood world.
Copyright © Michael Cordeiro | Year Posted 2009
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