Can We?

Can we? Do we? 

Live a life of cold resistance?

Can we neglect to love?

Do we need to forgive?

Do we want forgiveness?

Will we swallow pride?

Will we ever learn to love unconditionally?

To accept forgiveness is to admit fault

Yet if we refuse to accept

We fail to give another the basic right of humility

To be able to forgive with passion and genuine love

Is to live in Christ’s shadow

When we forgive we must forget

Without permanent lapse of memory

Forgiveness means less than nothing

If Christ could forgive his many oppressors

Who are we to harbour malice

Against those who need to be loved

Hatred erodes our light, casting us into an abyss

Of inky darkness…forever…