Redemption’s Depth

Might there be a yardstick

Long enough to allow a measurement?

For what fathomable distance

Does one’s innermost conviction and love go?

How dark might the upper layers be?

How shallow might the lower grounding be?

How answerable might the penetrating light be?

Can it give penance?

Can it offer emergence from guilt?

Can one’s admittance to a fault

Afford consideration from the empathic and epiphanous entity?

To weep in discovering

How sublime the answer,

The washing away of doubt,

The acceptance of liability,

The generous giving

Of all that’s left,

And the return of self-love.

Oh my…

Self-forgiveness

Knows so well

The depth of redemption.