Look At Me I Ask Forgiveness In The Silence Ofmy Soul For All These Years... Poem by RIC BASTASA

one may ask
forgiveness without
losing
this innate dignity

one who too respects
you does not need
the indignity of having
to spend
words

one has to look at
the eyes
and penetrate the
humility of the soul
the unseen
begging of forgiveness
one has to feel the
warmth of the hands
that begs for
more understanding

for wrongs are committed
by virtue of our own
human natures

these which nature
brings before us and
embeds in our bones

those which we have
no control of
like the claws embedded
in the eagle
the stings of the bee
the tongue of the snake
the teeth of the
and fangs of those dogs
and lions

look at me
i ask forgiveness
in the silence of
my soul
for all these years...