Forgiving
This deep deep truth a rooted knowing that to pray for you would free me to pray for you would stop opening this old wound again and again would take the sting from my memories would break chains and allow me to really breathe again because in my spiritual life I am holding my breath unable to really move forward choking on the pain and the hurt and the loss and the anger all vines, wound too tight around my heart a constant string around my finger a reminder to forgive you to let you go from this cage where I have locked you up for hurting me and paced in front of it for what feels like decades nothing good comes from holding you there because sadly it holds ME there so I end up dwelling in a place I never wanted lurking in a past that keeps me hurting...wallowing like trying to hold a crow that keeps pecking your hand why would you let it make wounds when you could release it? Oh wretched heart that doesn't know what to do that doesn'...