Cosmic Redemption

My heart was ablaze

With an inextinguishable fire

I loved my enemy so deeply that

It torched the contents of my heart

Just to cling to the hope of forgiveness

Why is forgiveness so impossible?

Every single person that I've known 

In this transient life

Are sprinkled like stars 

Across the expanse of the universe

Nearly all of them dim, and

Inevitably burn out

Without a sigh, or even a cry

There is nothing for me

Without some semblance of hope

Within the miraculous power of forgiveness

Why cannot I not be reconciled?

My body has been coiled in a snake of flames

My guilt tortures me to the point 

Where I fail to remember the 

Power vested in mercy

Towards the end of our lives,

Will this irreconcilable sorrow

Restively float beyond ourselves
Into the expansive universe

Does our soul ever find rest?

Or does our pain just cave in,

Forming a black hole

Or, is a new star borne out of the

Debris of our discontented selves

Will forgiveness resurrect us

From the fragmented dust of a self

That has stopped believing evermore

In the universe's miraculous power of redemption