Forgiveness

When you struggle to breathe, despite the fresh summer breeze

Or feel your hands scorched under the soothing shade of trees

When your head is heavy with the leaded thoughts of past

And the heart is stifled and smothered fighting to free at last

It is time you try forgiveness as your peers would say

Just a little ounce of forgiveness will go a long way!!

I wonder why you prod and trod the road that leads to pain

And then futility hide your footprints as you journeyed it in vain

Why scratch the scab from a healing wound and relive the hurt!

Why yank the strings so tight that it puts you in disconcert!

Let the forgiving waves wash away the repressed hate

Dissolve the bruised pride, guilt, regrets, and self-negate.

Let the tears freely flow like a gushing waterfall

Emptying the mossed gravel, tangled weeds, and all

Let go of the fear as you dive deep into the free space

Let nothing hold you back as you acknowledge every phase

To surrender from a place of love and faith, can surely be a task

But, when we reach the promised land, isn’t forgiveness that we shall ask?