Paper Boats

Making paper boats To set sail down the stream A tiny fleet to carry weighty cargo Each boat with fragile paper sails Each carries a memory, a pain Baggage that weighs down the soul Embarking on a voyage to nowhere special To just sail away, away And leave the heart light, the soul cleansed Free…

The Art of Forgiveness

It’s a daily lesson Learned by rote The only way you make it Is to repeat and repeat Take the anger, take the pain And let them go from your captive heart Like paper boats bobbing away down stream Send your rehearsed and remembered wrongs Into oblivion Forgive again And again, and again Every day…