forgiveness cannot come

31.12.2025

A: It is the New Year. Forgive.

S: Why? Why should I? They have not reformed themselves. They have done nothing worthy of forgiveness. Instead, they capitalise on their injustice and hate. They are oppressors.

A: So you seethe with judgement?

S: Yes. And I remove them from my life, my love and my friendship. They are false. I am not.

A: Yet you spill outrage and criticism.

S: One renounces and denounces.

A: In aid of what?

S: What else is there but our words and thoughts? This world inspires great anger. And it is the people of the world that make it what it is. I have had to swallow them and their hate and falsity. Now, I spit it out. I vomit them out from my stomach.

A: They hate the bitter.

S: You are wrong. They are addicted to coffee with its bitter dregs. And let them hate. It is what they do best. They would silence the one that calls out injustice and their caprice. They wound and then expect no retaliation. They cut and reject and expect no remonstrance. They do wrong and expect no judgement. They anger, and then outlaw anger.

A: The hero of words.

S: You sneer but what else is there? All we have is our our words so we have a word. They do not listen because they cannot. They do not mend their ways because they cannot. So I remove myself from the equation. Live without them. And forgiveness? Perhaps when I am dead.