Forgiveness Poem by THEODORE MOSLEY

Like an asteroid streaking through the atmosphere of his heart his pain is eclipsing the moon.

He cannot find the horizon of peace that will fulfill his torrential valley of dry bones.

Wanting to cast his life into the sea of forgetfulness, his cries are summoned by the death angel.

Holding onto the dreams of love that provided him with sunshine of tomorrow he occupied time.

She has succumbed to his words of exploitation; she was consumed with her beauty from within.

Their nights became graves of disappointments to each other's pillow.

Streets of seductive ways arrested her mind with the power of transcending love.

Walls of discontentment flourished with each word of reconciliation for his trusting heart.

His heart was once an open sea of eyes that went beyond the thought of deceitfulness.

Paralyzed with the enemy of self-conscience his lake of happiness became a lake of despair.

A portrait of everlasting summer walks has washed ashore on the quicksand of his tears.

Her wilderness experience contaminated his hands of tenderness that saturated his heart.

Immediately her heart withdrew from the night of terror that found her and forgiveness abounded.

Written by Theodore Mosley
February 15,2017