The Hardest Person to Forgive

One of those that they lost in the infamous crash. This is a poem of reflection...

 

The hardest person to forgive

Is the person inside your skin

For you know the intimate details

Details of your actions, motivations

Guilty feelings give checks and balances

Over our temptations and lusts

Some punish themselves for impulses

Urges that dogma represses

The cattle prod guiding one back to righteousness

In a futile effort to be godlike

We expect perfection, for god is perfect

So they say, anyway

What is perfection, other than an unrealized standard

Something that none of us can define

We battle our inner selves for perceived flaws

When it is those flaws that make us who we are

Those things in that we cannot change

Give us our unique identities

Why would god demand perfection?

When our souls are stained with imperfections

Unsavory desires

You cannot fail the creator of all things

For you were placed here to merely exist

You are another stitch in the fabric of space and time

Where there is no beginning or no end

But there are many paths

All leading to everywhere and nowhere

You fail to perceive of the destination

As you are only told of the journey

One aspect of the journey at that

So you are taught that your thoughts are wicked

Therefore you are wicked

Is there not a difference between thoughts and actions?

The mind merely presents possibilities

Forgive yourself for your thoughts

God already has

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