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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2001-10-13 12:20 PM

FORGIVENESS

As I Walk a pathless mountain
I think about empathy:
embracing those who hurt others: for instance,
should a rape victim forgive
the rapist who tore into her life?
Should a HIV-positive person
infected from a blood transfusion,
forgive the health care people
who utilized tainted blood?
Should a mother forgive the drunk
who killed her child?

What good could possibly come of this?
Can any of these “should’s” walk
in the same reality we do?
Are these but lofty thoughts
good but for those who sit and ponder
covering perfectly good paper with words
no one can possibly believe?
Are these only examples of impractical idealism?

I believe there are those who forgive
the greatest of wrongs;
who dare to love those who have hurt them.
They do not make the headlines
but sit quietly within a circle carefully drawn
to release pain, horror, emptiness of heart
kept locked up inside from that terrifying time.

Here, touched by the light of Spirit;
here, with tears of deepest sorrow
they set free the birds of the night
to welcome their own new dawn.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2001-10-13 01:03 PM

forgiveness is not an easy thing to accept..I have often wondered how some can forgive those who murder their children...and what of those who do the same wrongs more than once...oh well..just a thought

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

Heather Miller
Member

since 2000-07-19

Posts 409
Bryan, Ohio USA

2 posted 2001-10-13 02:38 PM

Forgiveness is a hard thing to give for us as human but if we want forgiven by our Heavenly Father we need to learn to forgive as well.
God Bless,
Heather

Without the experiance of love where would we be? We would have no memories to cherish.
With love it brings hurt with hurt bittersweet memories.

doreen peri
Member Elite

since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

3 posted 2001-10-13 03:23 PM

forgiveness is the aura of
the everything and all of Love,
for human is our nature and
mistakes are made, but understand,
sometimes we're lost in accusations,
caught in snags in our relations.
answers cannot e'er be blame
when all of us are much the same.

i was raped which twisted living
into traps of no forgiving.
years went by, the war inside me,
now i let the beauty guide me.
life can be a tightrope walking
as if hatred, hurt, is stalking.

better to forgive than suffer
others with our pain, the buffer
of acceptance, is a blessing.......
hatred in our heart's, repressing.

no, we ne'er can e'er forget , yet,
when forgiveness lives, we let
our hearts and souls become the healing...
to harbor grudges is the stealing

of our souls, we can't allow.
forgiveness is our Hope in vow.

(thank you for your poem and for being such an inspiration. my words are minimal but all i have to express my thanks for yours.)

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-10-13 07:18 PM

"Father, forgive them. . . for they know not what they do. . . "

just imagine if we could all do that. . . I think that this is a start. . .

well done. . . profoundly spoken, it makes the reader think. . .and consider. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2001-10-13 07:51 PM

Here, touched by the light of Spirit;
here, with tears of deepest sorrow
they set free the birds of the night
to welcome their own new dawn.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In order to heal we must first forgive.
Well done WindWalker. ~Warm hugs, Nancy~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2001-10-13 08:05 PM

"Here, touched by the light of Spirit;
here, with tears of deepest sorrow
they set free the birds of the night
to welcome their own new dawn"

You have spoken my heart.

The Lady of Shallot
Senior Member

since 2001-10-03

Posts 818
USA

7 posted 2001-10-14 08:31 PM

and you have spoken my heart also.

thank you

-befriend yourself and you will never be alone-

SmartChick
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

8 posted 2001-10-15 09:28 AM

i was raped which twisted living
into traps of no forgiving.
years went by, the war inside me,
now i let the beauty guide me.
life can be a tightrope walking
as if hatred, hurt, is stalking.

This caught my eye as I was reading your poem. Forgiveness is so hard for a thing like this. I know! Because I have been in this situation, before. Thank you for sharing this.

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