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Open Poetry #49

Betrayal

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

0 posted 2016-08-12 09:56 PM

Water alone cannot wash
the oil of savage hurt
from the sullied heart;
with the gentle soap of forgiveness,
alone will it disperse.
To a previous purity?
Or is it forever stained
by the waste of betrayal
from life's deceitful beach?
Perhaps the water is too hard,
and the most eager attempts
prove fruitless at restoration.
Perhaps too soft,
and all is lost
midst the foaming suds
of vain attempts to cleanse,
that which is tarnished forever.

Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

1 posted 2016-08-13 02:53 AM

quote:
"the gentle soap of forgiveness"

Forgiveness is the ultimate virtue and is not varied or incremental. One chooses to forgive, or they don't. Even as humans, we can forgive any betrayal or transgression. We decide for ourselves whether we will or not. If you Red, have this burden you wrote of so well, then you will make a choice...one way or the other.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-08-13 10:05 AM

I have found it within myself to forgive all who needed forgiving . . . Except one . . .

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2016-08-13 12:13 PM

I agree with Ari. It is a virtue, so it is not easy. ~L

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