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Forgiveness

Poem

This poem was a finalist in the 2023 BYU Studies Poetry Contest.


To release
some clutched pebble
or rock
or boulder.
To unshoulder
a worthless burden.
To drop a hurt
unchosen,
or let thaw
what was frozen.

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BYU Studies 62:3
ISSN 2837-004x (Online)
ISSN 2837-0031 (Print)