2 Forgiveness Poems
1 Poem 1:
2 Forgiving My Mother
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4 For all the times you yelled
5 and all the times you screamed
6 I forgive you.
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8 For all the nights we had
9 breakfast for dinner
10 and dinner for breakfast
11 I forgive you.
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13 For all the times I felt you pushed
14 my daddy away
15 I forgive you.
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17 For all the times we ran away
18 and came back,
19 For all the times we packed
20 and unpacked,
21 for all the friends I’ve lost
22 and all the schools I’ve seen,
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24 for all the times
25 I was the new kid on the scene,
26 I forgive you.
28 Poem 2:
29 Forgiving My Father
______________________________________________31 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
32 but I don’t know your heart.
33 Your face, is it a mirror image of mine?
______________________________________________34 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
35 but I find your absence a fire
36 that your face might be able to extinguish.
______________________________________________37 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
38 but my last name isn’t the same as yours
39 like it’s supposed to be.
40 You rejected me, Dad,
41 but can I sympathize with your ignorance?
42 For all the birthdays
43 you didn’t send me a card,
44 for the Christmases
45 when I’d wake up,
46 and you weren’t sitting by the tree
47 waiting for me
48 I can’t forgive you.
49 What about the summer nights
50 where prospects of you began to fade?
51 Fade like you did 17 years ago.
52 Out of my life.
______________________________________________53 I’d like to forgive you, Father,
54 but I don’t know you.
55 And for that,
56 I hate you.
______________________________________________57 Justin Morris
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