Redemption

Your words brawling
behaviour appalling
in quarrel you demean

Attacks are brutal
my resilience crucial
declining to be your victim

Believing your actions
simply minor infractions
knowing not the wounds you leave

…

Upon awakening you regret
hurting those you’re meant to protect
no direct appeal for redemption

Professing your sin
to your God within
assuming you will be saved

My dear, you have been deceived
as only the aggrieved
have the authority to forgive