Jennifer Cutting: Poetry
Forgiveness, by Jennifer Cutting
From the master's hand
Morning sends the rain
To grace a barren land
As the day began
Tender morning stars still
Shone against the sand
Wake and understand
Who forgave the child
Must now forgive the man
Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing the sound
So the water flows,
Soft as mercy falls
to smoothe the rocks below.
But the heart of stone
Blazons mercy's name
In blood, and blood alone.
Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing the sound
Now the hour to say
Kinder words we owed
And lost along the way
The closing of the day
When the hands of time
Shall mold a shallow grave
Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing...
...Will sing the sound
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