Do We Forgive Our Fathers?
Do we forgive our fathers?
Or do we take upon ourselves their blame?
Do we recognize them as our makers?
Or do we hide our faces when they’ve chosen poorly?
When the wind whispers acts of anger
Do we willingly enrage?
Or do we acknowledge the wind
And choose instead our hearts to believe?
Do we forgive our fathers
When the bitterness of their past bites and pains us so?
Or do we give them our loyalty
And let pass their short comings?
For they too are like us
With times that are best unseen
And they too are like us
Worthy of our love
So do we forgive our fathers
And in so doing forgive ourselves?
Do we drop the bottles
That keep inside our hurt?
Do we go forward and live
And in doing show we forgave?
And do we forgive our fathers
And in so doing set ourselves free?
(Written October 6, 2002)
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