What is Forgiveness?
by Ariel Douglas (2 November 2017)
Tearing out your own heart
Ripping, tearing, shredding it apart
Screaming and crying
Failing and trying
Hurting and falling
Desperate, calling
Clawing and digging into your depths
Reliving, rehashing all of your deaths
Shouting, ranting, and blaming
Growling, raging, and shaming
Arrows shot from every side
Broken people meeting, collide
Chaos taking over our minds
Building, breaking, coming up blind
We fester and stew and boil and steam
We wail and we flail and fight tears that stream
We crawl and we brawl and we will not give up the fight
We shake and we shiver and give into the night
There's a light up ahead like never before
We wince and we squint into the open door
Forgiveness walks in with love on His face
Gently taking it as we thrash for our place
Thrashing and fighting for our right to our anger
Lovingly, despite the beating, His hand does linger
And the longer He stands, watching, waiting
The more we forget our biting and hating
As we take his sweet, scarred hand
Peace begins to overtake the land
And the fear and the heartache that once ruled
And the fire we spat is instantly cooled
As Forgiveness holds us tight
We can look at our abusers without fright
Without hatred and scorn and a need for revenge
Without seething and starving to avenge
As Forgiveness touches us we begin to see
That we are just as able as He
To take the Forgiveness given to us
And extend it forward regardless of trust
To pass it on and pass it out
And to love and be faithful without a doubt
To be wise in our friendships and our trusting
To be so filled with love we're practically busting