River of guilt

when we fell into our river of guilt it almost
drowned us on the way down, and we realised
it is not the words that have been said, it is those
not

it made us want to surface again, back into
the stream of our forgiveness, where we saw
reason in the words that were never spoken
and still had to be, as they were known to both
of us

finally the understanding grew in our eyes, where
emotion settled down and made us believe a future
could still be kind to us

(c) JR. 2019