Forgive : a softer way

If I do not forgive you

Who will be the wiser one?

God knows this world so often is so

Shut down

Unkind

When we leave behind or ignore

The true inner state

Of another human being’s heart and soul

If I cry then I am in the wound

But maybe I am coming awake

So please do not tell me

To get over it

Or that I am

Full of self pity

Sometimes for us sensitives

Our hearts break

Over things the calcified

Find unmoving

So we must treasure the pain

If only for a while

The truth is

This human world is not always kind

And even in nature there comes a day

When someone dies

To feed another mouth

And yet in living what is life really all about

Does it lie in opening our hearts a little wider?

Does it lie in seeing where the calcifications are?

Does it rest in allowing them to be as they are?

Even as we know

With every fiber of our soul

There is another way

There is a kinder way

There is a softer way