Forgiveness in a word, is never accomplished with a word.

 Forgiveness.

One little word.

Looms large.

Never small,

knowing that forgiveness 

is not a word at all! 

An act,

action,

gesture, 

event. 

Forgiveness requires

my heart to be humble,

and my contrition

to be complete. 

It is seldom a feeling,

but an ongoing

purge. 

Of hatred of old,

and resentments brand new,

that smolder and grow

and make life 

a messy goo.

I purge and I render 

my feelings 

all better,

different, brand new. 

But soon those old voices,

aches, and heartbrokenness

will build again.

I'll talk to God and tell him my plight

and how I forgive 

and that I've set things a'right.

But I know that the work

is never done. 

Forgiveness is a verb,

an action,

a battle won.

-Carrie Horn