Oh! Something I’ve forgotten to mention is that part of my homework is also to write responses to poems written by other people and post them for your reading pleasure. Hopefully. So, anyway, here is my first one!
Tomorrow
-Mick Jackson
You
Told me
To worry
Not, tomorrow
Is another day,
A chance to start again.
I wish it was that simple.
You may forgive me with your words,
But the hurt in your eyes betrays you.
For me there cannot be a tomorrow.
“The hurt in your eyes betrays you”… Isn’t that such a heartbreaking moment? When you realize that you really have hurt someone? And what’s worse is that the people we love most are usually the ones we hurt most. If we were offered a million dollars to say something that we know would give a loved one’s eyes that look of helpless pain, we wouldn’t accept it! And yet, there you stand, knowing that your words and actions have hurt them… and you’ll never be able to take any of it back. Yeah, time heals, and you can apologize as much as you want. They can forgive you, and you can continue having a full, wonderful relationship, but… none of that erases those painful moments that none of us want to think about.
We hate to be the ones causing pain, don’t we? It’s so much more comfortable to be the victim. It’s easier to be the hurt one, (at least, it is until it comes time to forgive…) but it’s nicer to think that we were the ones hurt, we were the ones wronged… not that we’re the ones causing the hurt. Because, if we’re the ones causing hurt… we’re the bad guy! And no one likes the bad guy…
Unfortunately though… sometimes, we are the bad guy. And as much as we don’t want to be, we have to be willing to admit it. We have to be willing to admit that we caused pain, and ask forgiveness for it.
That’s hard to do. But, we have to be willing to do it…
I liked this poem for actually… showing that side of a painful situation. Usually, we hear from the wounded soul, how they have to reach within themselves, or give it to God before they can forgive. But rarely do we hear from the side of the one who has to be forgiven. Both sides are very real, and, (in certain situations) both take an equal amount of courage to talk about. It takes courage to feel; especially to feel difficult things. It’s much easier to keep everything bottled up, and hold the world at arm’s length. But until you allow yourself to feel it, mentally go through it, and take whatever steps it takes to get over it, (forgive someone, or ask for forgiveness, or whatever else your situation may call for.) we won’t be able to move on.
One of the neat things about being a Christian though is… we don’t have to hold on to it. We can move on—because even when we don’t feel strong enough, He is.
He is so we can be.
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