Forgiveness Leads to Healing

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Regretting our past leads to frustration. When we can forgive ourselves for our past behavior, we will begin to heal. We were doing the best we could in the moment. It is time for us to heal.

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…is my birthday. It's not a milestone birthday, but it still counts. As for all of us, birthdays present an opportunity to look at our lives, and see how we are doing. It also provides an opportunity for healing.

 Yes, the birthday is just another day. Nothing really happens differently on my birthday than it does on any other day. I wake up…


By John Davis

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Sending My Regrets

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Just because you have two broken halves and all the tape in the world, it doesn't mean you can make a whole.

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…know, I think I’m sorry now. Sincerely,

chest-heavy sorry. I carry it in the lowest tips

of my lungs like pneumonia. I know

I said I’d never apologize after you served up my heart

sliced thinly on toast, a quick late breakfast you slid to her

at the other end of the table we crawled across

(just a little further with every teasing flash of

psychotic secrets held far too private for way too…


By E.V. Noechel

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Chameleon

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…regret the day I said hello to him and letting him walk me to my car because there were thugs out on the street at that time of the night. He was a friend of a friend. She talked him up to the point that I just had to meet him. His face was pleasant, his teeth straight and white. He had to have worn braces as a child. I kept thinking as we talked. The conversation flowed smoothly between us. We had a few things in common, but enough differences to keep it interesting. So, when he asked me…

By Dawn DeBraal

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Rationalization, Responsibility, and Regret

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Denial, admission, and acceptance - skewed?

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…it Destiny

Brings me to this day?

Shadows, ghosts and fog

Shades of black and grey

 

Chances once not taken

Wagers cast and lost

Promised gold and silver

Paid in worthless dross

 

Can I blame cruel Fate

For where I’m now found?

Had I no control

Over paths gone…


By Mike Turner

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The Plead

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…phone has been ringing continuously for the past thirty minutes and she sat on the couch starring motionlessly at the crying phone as tears streamed down her face. Marcel has called severally to futility.

Finally, perhaps after much thought, she decided to welcome the incoming call ''For all I care, get out of my life and let me be." She couldn't utter more, her tears choked the rest. "Taiwo please am..." was all he could say before she hung the call. The latter resolved into an uncontrollable sob, she's being traumatized, sentences from their last meeting reverberated in her head…


By Ekundayo Abiodun

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Missed Connections

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…me at the park at midnight. If you don’t show, I’ll assume you don’t want to go through with it. - M"

 

AJ didn’t notice the note stuck under his wiper until the rain began on Eldridge Road.

He watched it flutter up over morning traffic and considered stopping, but he was late for work already so he let it go, focusing instead on his coffee.

After several long minutes in flight the note landed at the feet of a bus stop patron. She opened it, read it, considered it a moment, then threw it in the…

 

By Nova Walsh

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The Prison Of Submission

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…the fire was ignited, it could never be extinguished

Her hands are tied

Her power relinquished

Surrender or submission it no longer matters, from him, she can’t hide


A promise made, a promise kept

Even if the sentence is worse than death

After all the tears She's wept...

This addiction is worse than…

By Becca Hulen

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Regrets? Not I

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…you had it to do again, would you?” The expression on her face, tubing in her arms, the beep of the machine and her head resting on a pillow warned me to craft my response carefully. Would I? the thought echoed. There are things I would do differently; study harder, be more resolute about my future and career. Overall, however, I have no regrets regarding choices I made or their consequences.

In that moment of thinking I realized how much she had sacrificed, and how selfish I was. She raised four children while I chased an education. She stayed at…

By Robert L. Scarry

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