A Poem For Today - Forgiveness

[KEN DICKINSON]



Forgiveness

  

  If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  Matthew 6:23

When the combat has stopped 

and the soldiers lie still in their blood,

after the city is sacked, the women raped, 

and you find the gold

is only gold, and the salt

of every attempt to escape the empty hour 

only sharpens your pain, make a cup 

of your grief; make an empty room, and wait,

until the waiting is a place 

you have lived, a place you know 

by heart.

When you lie awake amid the ruins of your sleeping city 

waiting

for dreams that have abandoned you, 

let the waiting shape your longing.

When forgiveness comes, magnificent black wings shining, 

you will be a place so immense 

with the shadows of your doubt,

that place is all there is of you. Then 

you become 

the visitation. You swallow that black star 

and for a while you are light itself.

    - Elizabeth Herron

Sent from my iPhone

[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

impressive!

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