Forgiveness is not a door143Please respect copyright.PENANA28GBYmtDpw
we can knock on until it opens.143Please respect copyright.PENANAp604OtGJo0
It is a seed that belongs143Please respect copyright.PENANABy3qZ5SViX
only to the soil of the hurt one’s heart,143Please respect copyright.PENANAo7m2Rp3cIQ
and sometimes the ground stays barren.
To wound is to scatter glass across a road.143Please respect copyright.PENANArIr6hDKKba
We do not decide whether another143Please respect copyright.PENANAX8RbfKLU2V
will sweep it clear,143Please respect copyright.PENANAFt6EbV087M
or let our memory bleed their footsteps.
But there is something deeper143Please respect copyright.PENANAHlzwU6WNVV
than absolution:143Please respect copyright.PENANACzB9aepWb7
the courage to carry our own debris.143Please respect copyright.PENANAPrbHWyrvhG
To mend with hands still scarred,143Please respect copyright.PENANAAfbFqmQPTe
to build not because we are pardoned,143Please respect copyright.PENANAuTBnxiYa0T
but because the world143Please respect copyright.PENANAS14H6CgwUS
still deserves gentleness.
Some wounds will close143Please respect copyright.PENANAgwAUkHtfYe
like dusk folding over a quiet field.143Please respect copyright.PENANA5H1qOHBcZf
Some will stay raw,143Please respect copyright.PENANAqfgQDa5mUL
like salt pressed into the sea.143Please respect copyright.PENANAsEpXs8arVl
We cannot control which.
What we can choose143Please respect copyright.PENANAwW8gA877ga
is to live as if tomorrow matters,143Please respect copyright.PENANAkAinxux3wS
to make our weight into something143Please respect copyright.PENANAHIt8fXdC4u
that steadies instead of breaks.
Forgiveness may never come.143Please respect copyright.PENANAq20FdznQ1J
But responsibility—143Please respect copyright.PENANAOjRFlI9JaL
quiet, unglamorous, enduring—143Please respect copyright.PENANA9mmyqC0l7j
can still turn us toward the light