THE GRAVITY OF THE GRUDGE

You see a person sentenceed to death
Days counted before their last breath
Done so much pain and unimaginable sorrow.

Now the question is as follows…

Would you feed that person today,
What he or she wouldn’t be able to do tomorrow?

Would you offer the mercy you’d hope to receive?
Or tighten the knot in the web that you weave?

Would you be compassionate to say
To offer a last meal
To smile with mercy and speak loudly to pray
Or do unto them and not care to feel
Any remorse to show your Samaritan way
Not forgiving them, not allow yourself to heal
A grudge that is rotting in your own personal grave.
The dark gravity’s vengeance of your own seal.
A bleak, heavy burden that makes you a slave.
Vengeance is gravity—it pulls you down deep,
While mercy is the promise that your soul gets to keep.

Eye for an eye?
Or
Forgive your enemies?

Which are you ?