Stone Hearted

The power of forgiveness

Unforgiveness

Is one of those feelings

That carves a pattern

Into your heart;

One that wounds

And scars and hurts.

It's a terrible sense;

As if a stone

Is in your hand

And you're squeezing it

As hard as you can.

 

At first

The pain is slight

But the longer pressure is kept

The more painful it becomes;

It becomes a burden

Of wrists and arms aching

And the hand is imprinted

With the rock's geometric shape.

 

The longer that rock is held

The more the pain becomes

The larger the burden...
For it grows exponentially from itself;

The pain is all you can feel

Controlling...bitter pain.

 

So life now seems hopeless

Overrun by the stone in the hand

But there's hope.

Hope...yes...

Jesus died so that we could cast away our stones.

Like the story in the book of John

Everyone has sinned

Even you

And everyone will only continue to sin

But God forgives

He gave his only son so we could live a life

Without that stony ache

 

Throw the stone on the ground

Embrace the hope

Life a life without consistent burdens

Yes, it's possible

Not easy---no.

Yet possible

It takes effort

In many ways

But God gave us hope

Through his own forgiveness.

 

Greet that hope

With your own forgiveness.

 

 

Author's Note

Ok, so I know some people aren't Christians, but I always find it nice to throw in my own Faith based poems.

Reviews

[Mr. Lopez]

This is a wonderful write. More a prose then poem but wonderful none the less. I would like to invite you to read a piece that i wrote on the same subject called "power of forgiveness". I thought that the analogy of the stone is great and very true. So many of us hold onto resentment far too much, until we find that it has eaten away at our hearts. Yet the power of forgiveness frees us from this cancer.Great message and much needed piece of work.

Mr. Lopez

[Josh Caccamo]

very nicely written...we both share the same faith...i got over my heart of stone years ago...lol