Forgive me

I don't believe forgiveness can be given. Time is the healer. Written in 1978.

Forgive me

Please forgive me for what I did to you.

I'm sorry I torture you with lies and treated
you as I did.

I was young.
Learning to love.

Finding the many mistakes young lover's can make.

I left you alone and swimming in tears and loneliness.

I hope all your thoughts of me are not filled with hate.

But filled with fond memories of two lovers learning
to touch and  to love.

Even through our ending ended in anger and sadness.
We allowed the world to separate us.

You are still a beautiful face and tender memories I can't forget.

I hope I didn't destroy your desire to love and feel.

I hope your new beginning are filled with happiness and joy.

I hope you didn't throw away all the love we held and gathers.

You came and said goodbye to me.
I was leaving Germany.
We held each other for the last time.

I whispered.
Thank you sweet lady for sharing love with a foolish man.

                   Coyote
                   1978

Author's Note

A old poem. Young people must learn to understand to be kind and gentle in the emotion of love.

Reviews

[Ian Faraway]

"Even THOUGH our ending ended..." Not through. A few other grammatical mistakes but other than that I LOVED it! Sometimes all we have are memories. Even when the person we love or care about is long gone or no longer who they were, we can still look back at the memories and smile with a few bitter sweet tears. J'adore!

[the_stoic]

how good the world would have been had every lover thought in a similar manner.. people break hearts so often and don't even bother to say sorry. It does render the other person incapable of loving, filled with hate and anger .. a relevant write i must say !

[MoriartyMesa]

Age in the work, that is something when you write it at the time, can not be done again, lovely.

[Stacey Watts]

This is very true. When we are young and in love it tends to be a selfish thing. When we are older we tend to learn how to be selfless. Very wise and wonderful piece.

[Tamelia Jade]

Shivers :) Really touching! Thank-you!

[BMColey]

i ;ove how your poems capture every emotion of love. good or bad. keep on keepin on man

[khalid]

the closer the person who hurt us, the more pain we feel..but if we really love, we find ourselves forgive even if we didnt mean to..i have really enjoyed this wonderful poem with all the meanings it has. we really need forgiveness in such a crazy world we are living in with all the wars and conflicts revailing all over it..
very nice poem really..
thank you for sharing

[B. Maaitah]

almost made me cry... so touching and genuine.... and sorrowful

[Patrick]

so heartfelt and true...takes great courage and real strength to ask for forgiveness and also give it.

[Renée]

What an adorable young couple ! Oh Coyote you bring tears to my eyes on this one..
Why hold on to the ugly...I bet she remembers you fondly also .. Your heart is so sweet..