“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
I know that conclusion well but consider:
After such knowledge what else but forgiveness?
Nothing restored to what it had been, but
the changed utterly of time and circumstance
morphs into what is the past a lesson
in a meditation hall, a grove of trees,
a whispered dialogue of love now not
to be and that forgiveness that does not
offer redemption nor a second chance
simply acknowledging things are as they
are and forgiveness that releases one
from the past is the only sensible act
to perform not for the other but for
yourself to set yourself free from
antiquated knowledge turned to
a lesson once learned needing no
repetition. The easy thing is holding
on, the hard thing is letting go –
so much of who we are invested
in what went wrong we forget those
moments are Zen masters speaking
in koans, sages in parables, poets
seeing what never was seen before
and that OM of recognition, that Aha
of acceptance, that kicking of the dust
off our feet at a door no longer opening.
I have loved that line since I first read it;
but wish there had been more, that movement
where forgiveness closes and opens another door.
-Byron Hoot
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