Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a quiet light rising where the shadows fall softly healing hidden places gathering the pieces all it meets me in the silent hours where old regrets still echo through and every time I breathe it in it makes my heart begin anew It doesn’t change the past I lived but lifts the weight I tried to hide it opens hands I held too tightly letting weary knots untie it teaches me to walk again with gentler steps, with open eyes to see the grace I never claimed was waiting right before my life Oh forgiveness, like a rising storm of light breaking through the darkest night pulling down the walls I built inside oh forgiveness, like a choir in the sky lifting every fear I fight filling all the empty rooms with life I’m letting go, I’m stepping in to love that never ends again Forgiveness is a whispered truth that grows beneath the hardest stone it calls me from the places where I swore I’d walk this road alone it shows me I am not defined by every wound or every scar it turns the ashes of my past into a thousand burning stars Where mercy grows, courage stands where fear has been, love returns again every time I choose to free a deeper freedom rises in me and all the chains I used to wear fall like dust into the air Oh forgiveness, like a rising storm of light breaking through the darkest night pulling down the walls I built inside oh forgiveness, like a choir in the sky lifting every fear I fight filling all the empty rooms with life I’m letting go, I’m stepping in to love that never ends again So here I stand with open hands the night behind, the dawn ahead every step a softer echo every breath a lighter thread Forgiveness like a quiet flame still burning in the places torn and as I walk into the light I rise again, reborn, reborn and in the quiet, I forgive myself