Recolletive #7

by MDM Matthew - Libra

Free me,
for I am in chains.
I have caused you many tears
and countless years of pain.

The steel, it cuts
so ever deeply into my hands,
but still the blood that flows freely
cannot make up for your demands…

Restlessness?
Or is it just pain?
I am standing here
amidst the rumbling remains.

I have hoped 
to show my great love for you,
But still I try, with tears afresh
glistening like the morning dew.

The trees,
they speak for me.
Of pain and hatred
supposedly given me.

A realization? 
Or a distant dream?
Whatever you are
my life you did redeem.

My tears?
They mean nothing!
Of the pain you went through,
people still go unbelieving

that your love for me
was ever so great.
You laid your life down
for a world full of hate.

A paradox?
Or so it seems,
But still you laid your life,
so I can be redeemed…

Reason for writing:

    There are times in our lives that we go through it's pains, sorrows and hardships. We also do things that are considerably foolish and stupid. I wrote this poem after experiencing a most tremendous shortcoming. 
I cried out to God in forgiveness. Yet, we have those times when we even doubt our own creator. It is because we lack knowledge and understanding. But tell me, who among us mortals can understand God? Who among the creations would match 
at least even the understanding of their creator? So out of our ignorance, we raise our own gods... then cock our heads, roll our eyeballs and doubt when what is manifest omes to light.    

Birth sign: Libra
Date created: 2000-01-20 12:32:33
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:42
Poem ID: 54397

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