Forgiveness

“Forgiveness” was a finalist in the annual poetry contest sponsored by BYU Studies and published it in BYU Studies Quarterly 62:3. There is power in letting go of things that do not help us.

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Forgiveness

To release
some clutched pebble
or rock
or boulder.
To unshoulder
a worthless burden.
To drop a hurt
unchosen,
or let thaw
what was frozen.