How often have I shouted you down
Hurling words of absolute certainty
Against the softness of your sweet face?
Sending shards of shame
As sharp as slivered glass
Into the moist, pink pleading of your heart?

How harshly have I rejected
The silent questions flowing
From pools of blue water
Feeling only my own self-centered
And childish need?

How trustingly you turned day after day
Seeking the light of love.
How frequently did the ice of denial and distraction
Freeze your soul, sending you fleeing
To worlds better left untouched?

How can God love this soul of mine,
This very soul that caused so much pain?

How can you?

Thank God for Love
Thank God for you

Forgiveness is the foremost lesson in life.

I forgive them.

You forgive me.

God forgives us all.