Mistakes

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@persnicketyprints?utm_source=medium&#38;utm_medium=referral">Persnickety Prints</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&#38;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a><br/><br/>If I should pray in absolution&#8217;s hourfor some great grace, forgiveness for mistakeswill heaven grant my wish? Will angels flowerfrom earth and roses? Will the stone walls shake?<br/><br/>How do we learn forgiveness, let it go,release the past to dwell with bygone things?How do I burn the memories, to knowthey&#8217;ll never come again on raven wingsto gnaw at me? I never knew the prayer,a divine incantation setting freemy darkest days &#8212; abandoned to the airof heaven high above &#8212; to simply bewithout the horror of a grieving nightin retrospect &#8212; but sleeping light. <br/><br/>Get full access to Sonnets &c. at <a href="https://zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast">zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe</a>