Past And Beyond Evil Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

Is a crime less wrong with the passage of time?
Can evil be diluted through the years?
Does the passage of time excuse wrongs done?
Excuses of ‘another world' ‘another time'
Are just that
Excuses…..
So many wrongs we have to right
So many hurts we have to heal.
People shamed and degraded
Who takes culpability?
Who?
We do! That's who.
Each and everyone of us
How can we put things right though?
Do we ask for forgiveness and show contrition?
Do we make promises of ‘Never again'?
Offer recompense and restitution?
I don't know....
But what I do know is that I feel the weight of past wrongdoings,
and shame at man's inhumanity to man
A bleeding heart offers no solace
But that's all I have….