January 30, 2019

victims say their offender

doesn't deserve forgiveness

none of us, not a single one

deserves to be forgiven

we’re too sublimely rotten

to deserve anything at all

but that’s the point of it

forgiveness can’t be earned

it is entirely undeserved

a gift the offended gives

to the one who harmed them

were forgiveness deserved

it would have another name