(It’s a tragic truth among us that it is too often the most loving and well intended truth tellers who face the greatest revilement both personally and publicly)
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Recorded Reading: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdd02a49pamq46p/forgive%20myself.mp3?dl=0
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Forgive Myself
Resolution can’t be had
Between us things have got so bad
That if for honesty I tried
It’s pretty sure I’d be you’d lied
At end you, it makes me sad,
No explanation will have had
Of what it is I do or say
For which you give resentment play
Must put the matter on the shelf
There unenlightened let it lie —
I know heaven will not deny
Permission to forgive myself
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Among us, poets are ill paid. In order to continue her work, this one currently lives in her minivan, on an income of a fraction of our nation’s poverty level. If her work has moved, enabled or uplifted you, your contribution to this effort may be made at: https://www.gofundme.com/kx4xka-are-you-a-patron-of-the-arts
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Troubador of Verse 