By spiritwic
Date: 2005 Oct 06
Comment on this Work
[[2005.10.06.22.12.2772]]

Forgiveness

husky voices
sing about forgiveness
words to be applied
to any number of circumstances

I left my family
to free myself
from a broken heart

thirty-five hundred miles
and I made new friends
and my heart healed
but I lost myself along the way

so I left my friends
to free myself
from a life lost
flew around the world
and ended up back with my family
with a husband I didn't know

so I left my family
to free myself
from the stranger in my bed

forty-five minutes away
and I found safety in solitude
but loneliness crept in
and with it memories of a better time

so I left my safe haven
plunged back into the world
of numbing alcohol
loud music and
reckless encounters of flesh

and I listen, quieted
husky voices
singing of forgiveness
but I can't make out the words
and life still leaves a bad taste in my mouth
that won't ever be washed away.
(c) NSD 2005