Poem: Forgiving Our parents

FORGIVING OUR PARENTS

Christopher Nyerges

[I haven't shared a poem in a while -- I hope you like it]

 

We seldom think that who we are

Is product from backseat car

Or lusty night from smokey bar

And not the son of distant star

We are the product of mom and dad

Their mingled traits both good and bad

We want to think we’re so unique

And so we are, but let us speak

How our child minds did set the stage

For adult us who learned to rage

With pain within we could not gauge

And fears and deficiencies

From hidden fears from early age

We found we could not turn the page

To cure, we had to find a sage

Who maybe helped us, maybe not

Our solution, had to be sought

By choice within, or happened not

And even then, inside we fought

Our inner demons, night and day

Until we got to bright new day

Until we find that we could say

I accept my father who he was

I accept my mother who she was

They lived their life, they did their buzz

They were who they were, just because

I did what I did, I always does

Above my parents did I rise?

Or were their limits born in me

Should I blame them for my own lies

They were my parents, not 2 gods

They made no pretense, they weren’t frauds

I must forgive them, on my own

And for their soul, let cease that moan

They did their best, I am quite sure

No pain intend, from him or her

They lived their life, they tried their best

During Depression, dad came west

Challenge had in time of war

Enough to make their bodies sore

I was not center of their life

Though tried their best in time of strife

The center I’d have liked to been

That I wasn’t, was not sin

Child rarely in parents’ shoes

Sees from parents eyes what they dos

Day in and out, sun rise to set

Bills to pay and job to get

Responsibility, oh boy

My parents sometimes had no joy

I forgive them now in my heart

Though both gone now, I have to start

To have new life, must do my part

To see anew, and wipe eyes clean

Parents forgive, no more mean

Within my mind, internal clean

Release I do bad pictures seen

It’s finally time to let it go

And see instead divine rainbow

Challenges many we all have

Some we fail and some we meet

Time it is for spiritual salve

To lighten mind and stop the heat

To finally learn from our past

Forgive our parents at long last

And with optimistic heart and mind

Seek the truth that is there to find

Not dark webs that would keep us bind

But bright truth light most rad’ant kind

And on that path our answers find

That kingdom within, in our mind

A place real, where we’re no more last

Truly, we can be free at last

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