How long would you suppose it takes
for one to forgive another's mistakes?
A day? A year? A century?
How about eternity!
Is it right to inflict such long term misery on one who erred once?,
and that done mistakenly?
Is it right never to reconcile
To not forgive, forever condemn to cold exile
What right has one to punish
Blacken another's name, to stain and blemish
Who of us has never sinned?
Are we so innocent as to cast such a stone
What gives them permission to sit upon so righteous a throne?
What act of criminality deserves eternal condemnation?
Is there no chance of reconciliation
Is the punishment fitting for ignominious acts?
Was the crime worth such an outrageous overwhelming fuss?
What character would cast a punishment so dire?
What kind of person would in judgement sit higher
to humiliate
to condemn one whose heart holds no hate.
Was it a crime of passion?
An act of treason
would certainly give due reason
to banish one to exile
But was the crime so terrible in reality
to never give mercy or offer charity?
Was it a forgiving mind who condemned against a single act of thoughtlessness?
to forever walk The Halls Of Hades in full knowledge of their crime,
albeit with no reason or rhyme!
Not for them was given the bliss of ignorance,
No forgetfulness, no compassion or a second chance
No freedom ever to be rewarded
as is usually afforded
to be judged wrongly
Am I completely blameless?
Or do I deserve to walk these Halls of duplicity
wrongly charged, facing walls of blackness and solidity
Cruel in their confinement
judged, condemned to die a traitor's death
My name written for all to see
The crime of betrayal, misplaced loyalty
was laid against me
but, in truth, in reality
Unquestioned was my loyalty and my honesty
It was a single act of thoughtlessness,
an honest unthinking mistake
which sent me, without mercy to Hades gate
The parchment signed with a signature
VETRONET
sealed on the same day
As I enter, the forbidding, unofrgiving steel slams shut behind me
I glance down, and, in my bound hands i see
A simple drinking vessel, glazed in blue
etched in gold a name so bold
~VETRONET
An eternal reminder of what I did to you
The day I drank from a traitor's cup
never more from a red cup would I sup
So cold, so callous you were to me
Your heart closed
As though you no longer cared
you would not even look upon my face
barely even allowed to state my case
Banished, condemned for treason
But was this your true reason
was it really because I drank from a cup, glazed in blue
or was it because you thought me in opposition to you
Will you never forgive?
will you forget what you did
Or will your heart hold guilt for evermore
for sending me to walk eternally
because you condemned and judged me wrongly,
to walk through Hades door
Will forgiveness ever open your heart and mind
will you come to me and once again treat me kind?
My fate,and yours too My Lord, lies within your hands
Forgive me please, set me free to once again feel your loving embrace
To feel your tender touch upon my face
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