Acceptance

Acceptance

It is a struggle to

Allow for ambiguity

The unasked question

A thankless word unspoken

Left to hang in the air

Frozen

Falling silently like rainfall

In a petrified forest

Spitting on a hotplate

Dancing for a meagre supper

Like a dog for Pavlov

Singing the praises

Of an enemy to appease

The dreamers

Seeing a cross outlined on a window

Before it is dismissed

As a sign

You don’t believe in Jesus

Does he believe in you

See how that runs

Off the tongue as easily as a lie

From the mouth of a spy

In a penny dreadful

Proof that words are never enough

Nobody really knows

The truth of conviction

Until its boundaries are breached

Pain has a way of invading privacy

Prying its way through the layers

Opening the mind

To the torture of forgiveness

When often, the preference is

Not for understanding

But of oblivion