Popular Poems About Forgiveness

i realise too late
(for youth and childhood)
the hardest emotion to feel
the thing i always fought against
and that which kept out all
was love, forgiveness.

how i imagined killing you
so many times
of making you afraid
as you made me
when round your own son’s neck
you placed your hands
and held him fast across the bath
the tap running, running.

i thought of stabbing you to death
of breaking your skull with a chair
and feeling pleasure on
the consummation of that act
approaching sensuality. ...

My love notes on your shirt      
grew as sticky      
as the air      
in my wasted lungs      
and the feel of your      
forehead against mine      
scared the shit out of me. again.      
     
angered me. again.      
     
fucked me up in what I      
can only brand as the      
flavor of      
us;      
and our version of love      
is poison in a diet-coke can      
served ice-fucking cold      
     
again.      
     
your warm mouth traced      
hope on my...

Finding true forgiveness
with the past has restored my spirit”
                                           - Elisha Harden

and once those vultures stop picking at the bones
they fly away looking for new carrion
guilt tends to be the same way
until it realizes there’s nothing to pick here
so just carry on
carry on…

letting go of the past
maybe one of the hardest thing to do
whether looking for the answers or absolution
it’s a difficult path to achieve peace
even if we are the villain in someone else’s story
...

It’s the innocence about the times that I miss most
The way they used to look up
The little voices pulling at the heart

When I used to drive by that church on Washington
There was a moon at the top of the steeple
His little voice would cry out “the moon daddy, the moon”
There was some comfort in hearing that
Yet I knew deep down inside as time would go by
All that would fade away

But that was years ago…

It was as we walked through the museum
That his silence pierced through me
His indifference growing
That...