Forgiveness

Poem for Poets and Storytellers United
I witnessed a fight between parents and their adult child It was sad and I had to write a poem about it

Forgiveness

They spoke a different language
not hearing each other’s needs
Flowering had ceased
petals dropped off its stem
Glory gone but not forgotten
Ruptured roots forever intertwined
under a blanket of silent memories
of cuddles and conversations
of laughs on long summer nights
that sprinkled silver on their souls 
Now a stream of sadness
seeps deep into the damp earth
Shriveled petals of ego on top
as the right to be wanted
is jumbled and muddled
by the want to be right
The decay of dreams begins

In this raw dirt of reality
re-enter the cycle of love 
by scattering sweet seeds
of gentle forgiveness 
to exile unexamined expectations
to accept our humanness
to erase the winter
Seeds watered with warm words
caressed by a waft of wind 
waiting for the dawn of spring
when the sun tentatively touches
the new expecting earth
from which flowers sprout
in red, yellow and purple
and laughter is heard again
in the back garden where
souls bask in a golden glow