Forgiveness is not a door143Please respect copyright.PENANA8XecYgfthz
we can knock on until it opens.143Please respect copyright.PENANAaSwE5qW6b0
It is a seed that belongs143Please respect copyright.PENANAATSdWS348P
only to the soil of the hurt one’s heart,143Please respect copyright.PENANAU5FwdEIOWF
and sometimes the ground stays barren.
To wound is to scatter glass across a road.143Please respect copyright.PENANAsySffcgfwf
We do not decide whether another143Please respect copyright.PENANAx4sRCP8Zp7
will sweep it clear,143Please respect copyright.PENANA3Osx6ePRUW
or let our memory bleed their footsteps.
But there is something deeper143Please respect copyright.PENANAF3tHVyTLsa
than absolution:143Please respect copyright.PENANAsomzIh1MXa
the courage to carry our own debris.143Please respect copyright.PENANA4rhCxwLqnV
To mend with hands still scarred,143Please respect copyright.PENANAqPwVwpLxC4
to build not because we are pardoned,143Please respect copyright.PENANAkRrq7ZQShA
but because the world143Please respect copyright.PENANApF7lOX57vt
still deserves gentleness.
Some wounds will close143Please respect copyright.PENANA63eQcyFkUF
like dusk folding over a quiet field.143Please respect copyright.PENANAQHKWTG8kn0
Some will stay raw,143Please respect copyright.PENANARDBKwZTJmK
like salt pressed into the sea.143Please respect copyright.PENANAl4klobPZYW
We cannot control which.
What we can choose143Please respect copyright.PENANAplVPzHyjLH
is to live as if tomorrow matters,143Please respect copyright.PENANAwwGkGs4Ay0
to make our weight into something143Please respect copyright.PENANArwB9cFhlKp
that steadies instead of breaks.
Forgiveness may never come.143Please respect copyright.PENANAoEhfm77vG0
But responsibility—143Please respect copyright.PENANA0eIIahu2Cf
quiet, unglamorous, enduring—143Please respect copyright.PENANAsz8KpRhVI1
can still turn us toward the light