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Author's Note: Originally published on my old account, I re-wrote it slightly and I think it's pretty good :) Please read, review, and enjoy!

Forgiveness

Past Demons have dodged my every step

Promises haunt me, both broken and kept

I looked for the sun to see only the darkness

I reached out to kindness and found only the harshness

Regrets filled me and shame preserved me

All the things I've done constantly blind me

I found no strength to make the inner demons flee

It seems they wanted something…they wanted me

I wanted to be free for once in my life

Yet I would have to fight for that right

But the more I struggled the more I was bound

I looked for answers but none were to be found

No matter what I did, I could never be free

So I fell back and let the demons take hold of me

But before I fell, once and for all

I saw something that halted my desperate fall

All my life I had been running away, trying to forget the past

But could it be what I needed was something I hadn't asked?

Forgiveness for my crimes…I could never have that

For the things I've done, people I've attacked

It was something so foreign and yet so wonderful

But the things I've done…weren't they too terrible?

Yet the forgiveness shone bright and high

It was filled with truth, devoid of lies

I was too tired and haunted to do anything for myself

I reached out a hand and felt, what else?

Forgiveness, in my mind, must be earned by pain

It is something I must suffer to gain

But for all my beliefs, I found I was wrong

Forgiveness is gentle like a lullaby, like an angel's song

And where do you think I found what I looked for all this time?

I found it in the faces of the friends I am proud to call mine

My mother and my friends, both old and new

Can it really be that I should receive the coveted forgiveness from you?

Yes, I can feel it shinning down on me

And yes, I believe I am finally free

The demons' faces seemed to vanish before my eyes

And the regrets don't still shame me, not even the lies

They've faded away, like sand in the wind

Forgiveness from my friends have destroyed all the sins

The thing that I thought had to be suffered to be felt

Was gentle from the friends that kind fate had dealt

I thought the regrets were going to kill me…I thought I was to die

And yet because of my friends that loved me by choice, I stand before all, now a man free and alive