Is redemption possible?

New week, new poem assignment... This one was over bully's. A bully poem which was hard to write for me this week.  If you have questions email me.


Regrets collect
the guilt drags and tears me down
the cruelty of this terrified tongue
sliced you with a knife
of verbal precision
and cut you down

Never seeing the way
others shut me down
used and abused me as well
got into my ego
projected all my flaws onto you

Things done to me
actions that can't be changed
Hurting with a bleeding open wound
pushed it all onto you
punished because I couldn't tell the truth

Begging for redemption
trying to teach you all I have learned
how to overcome
weight of actions, of words
lashed out when younger

Tried to protect you
and toughen you to the world
from evil things done to me
But hurt you worse than anyone
and you call me sister
and we say "I love you"

Given your forgiveness
after divulging and letting down
brick and mortar
shut and suffocating
tears, hugs, and "I'm sorry's"
will never be enough
Now I will teach you how to love