Forgiveness Poems
1 Poem 1:
2 Forgiving My Mother
3 For all the times you yelled
4 and all the times you screamed
5 I forgive you.
6 For all the nights we had
7 breakfast for dinner
8 and dinner for breakfast
9 I forgive you.
10 For all the times I felt you pushed
11 my daddy away
12 I forgive you.
13 For all the times we ran away
14 and came back,
15 For all the times we packed
16 and unpacked,
17 for all the friends I’ve lost
18 and all the schools I’ve seen,
19 for all the times
20 I was the new kid on the scene,
21 I forgive you.
22 Poem 2:
23 Forgiving My Father
24 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
25 but I don’t know your heart.
26 Your face, is it a mirror image of mine?
27 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
28 but I find your absence a fire
29 that your face might be able to extinguish.
30 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
31 but my last name isn’t the same as yours
32 like it’s supposed to be.
33 You rejected me, Dad,
34 but can I sympathize with your ignorance?
35 For all the birthdays
36 you didn’t send me a card,
37 for the Christmases
38 when I’d wake up,
39 and you weren’t sitting by the tree
40 waiting for me
41 I can’t forgive you.
42 What about the summer nights
43 where prospects of you began to fade?
44 Fade like you did 17 years ago.
45 Out of my life.
46 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
47 but I don’t know you.
48 And for that,
49 I hate you.
50 Justin Morris
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