POETRY PROMPT: FORGIVENESS MATTERS

LET IT GO

No one is saying you're wrong to feel the way you do

To not feel a single thing at all, is worse for you

But think of the hours you lament

Wondering where your time and effort went

Release all the people who've hurt you so

The pain that you're suffering they'll never know

Even if you flee, run, or walk away

The scars that you're covering grow day by day

Let it go

Please let it go

Before bitterness sets in, just let it go

Just let it go

Please, let it go

There's freedom indeed

Just tell the Lord what He already knows

There's a bright side somewhere

To ease your journey there, just let it go

When you rehearse each and every offense

And wear like a badge the years you have spent

Angry inside and seeking the day

When all who have harmed you

Are quickly swept away

The current that sweeps them

Will drown you first

The life you could have lived

Yields no fruit, and worst of all

The Father who cares

And restores and makes new

Is powerless to offer forgiveness to you

So, let it go

Please let it go

Before bitterness sets in just let it go

Just let it go

Please let it go

There's freedom indeed

Just tell the Lord what He already knows

There's a bright side somewhere

To ease your journey there, just let it go

     

RESIDUE

 

I overheard a stranger cry

There had been an injury

So deep I was sure that I

Would begin to weep

The response to so much hurt

Was as cold as ice

"Look, just get over it!

Get on with your life!"

Just made me realize

Some things you ought not share

Things you, nor friends can solve

Are best reserved for prayer

Some stuff has residue

Traces left over after the real thing has gone

That’s not easy to gloss over

Or to recover from

Some stuff has residue

It's designed that way

To keep your eyes on painful times

While hopes subsides

And joys are few

I continued listening

To see where things would go

Would there be drying of tears?

Would a smile replace the flow of words and feelings

That had piled up over time?

Instead, along with hurt, anger raged

No empathy; no compromise

That either heart would change

No, "It's gonna be alright"

No "Let me help you through"

No mention of God's love

Mercy was left out, too

Just a cold "Get over it"

Without a suggestion how

 I wonder at times

If things are resolved now

Some stuff has residue

Traces left over

After the real thing has gone

That you just can't get over soon

Can't seem to recover from

Some stuff has residue

It's designed that way

To leave you weak, worn, confused

And forgiveness at bay

There is a remedy

It may not take much time

When Joy and sunrise coordinate

Dried tears are a good sign

It's up to you to say, though

When your morning will be

Oh, the freedom you’ll know

When what you’ve clung to

Is released

Some stuff has residue

Traces left over

After the real thing has gone

That you can't get over quickly

Can't seem to recover from

Some stuff has residue

But it doesn’t have to stay

Find the brightness, see the beauty

No time is better than today

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