Forgiveness is not a door142Please respect copyright.PENANAdrLTIbJcGv
we can knock on until it opens.142Please respect copyright.PENANAwwFQfSDP4I
It is a seed that belongs142Please respect copyright.PENANAXH9oYwrduA
only to the soil of the hurt one’s heart,142Please respect copyright.PENANAv2Svby8fqy
and sometimes the ground stays barren.
To wound is to scatter glass across a road.142Please respect copyright.PENANA2b8CXkIhZG
We do not decide whether another142Please respect copyright.PENANAmfdwOCuvej
will sweep it clear,142Please respect copyright.PENANAf0EuUvsjHI
or let our memory bleed their footsteps.
But there is something deeper142Please respect copyright.PENANASV5pm9MqMz
than absolution:142Please respect copyright.PENANA5n4pBGSKca
the courage to carry our own debris.142Please respect copyright.PENANAoUTiy1tqTZ
To mend with hands still scarred,142Please respect copyright.PENANAl35aNIncOX
to build not because we are pardoned,142Please respect copyright.PENANAYPKbDalxzF
but because the world142Please respect copyright.PENANAaMb7xFu9PF
still deserves gentleness.
Some wounds will close142Please respect copyright.PENANAenPW0OZzPc
like dusk folding over a quiet field.142Please respect copyright.PENANAzABBMRVuSV
Some will stay raw,142Please respect copyright.PENANAg3IkwLyI0D
like salt pressed into the sea.142Please respect copyright.PENANAG1gf4Xe9zT
We cannot control which.
What we can choose142Please respect copyright.PENANAGipQWnIlRD
is to live as if tomorrow matters,142Please respect copyright.PENANAgb3L5E7sDl
to make our weight into something142Please respect copyright.PENANAiuVWIP7A5Y
that steadies instead of breaks.
Forgiveness may never come.142Please respect copyright.PENANAhJ2fzudjLH
But responsibility—142Please respect copyright.PENANA0yUZEjShPj
quiet, unglamorous, enduring—142Please respect copyright.PENANA2p1v3XxreT
can still turn us toward the light