Feb. 3, 2008 : The Beloved Son

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Feb. 3, 2008 : The Beloved Son

Even as he cried the words, “O Absolom,
O Absolom!” he understood
How the cost forgiveness took
So much for so much hurt.

O injury! That thou had never
Come upon in these hours!
My heart is pained and I learn
The steps that break a heart
With love. For such a blow,
Struck by cruel force, forces
The unremitting moment to its crisis.
Thus to my knees I am reduced, and cry,
My Absolom, why did you? Why?
I loved you and in my breast you found
Comfort, rest, but no solace for the wounds
Which I too have borne, o son, and yet!
You roused your armies to attack me;
your words to dethrone me. It is now,
when all is lost, that I can admit,
despite all I gave, you failed me.

So I forgive you, my son, you see?
I forgive you, sweet Absolom,
For not killing me.

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

morgainecnyll’s Poems (45)

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