If Not For Circumstances Beyond Us Poem by A B Faniki

If I have not wronged someone today I will not have told
Him that our ability to be able to forgive is what made us
the most compassionate beings alive that ever walked
The earth, like how our ability to forget also made us humans

If I knew someone that I like that keeps meeting disappointment
In every turn of events in his life will it not be alright to cry a river
On his behalf, the moment such a thing happens and to comfort
him with kind and loving words that could do amazing wonder

For his broken spirit by lifting it up and enabling it to be free
As free as the North wind that brings colder weather to Irving,
Or as free as the air that we breathe without paying any fee.
If not for circumstances beyond me I will have not done a thing

For wrong, for forgiveness, for compassion, for forgetting,
For disappointment, for events, for comfort, or for loving