To be forgiven

To be forgiven.

Forgiveness at a personal level.

To know trauma's lived through,

paths taken, 

lies told,

can all be drowned out by

three words.

Yet it is cliché that these are 

the hardest to speak.

No man struggles to forgive 

unless it is the man within

his reflection.

How funny,

that we can say

roads ahead are paved anew,

and yet alone,

we lay still upon the tarmac,

waiting for headlights 

and the pressure of tires,

to pass judgement upon us.