Forgiven and forgotten
or forgotten at the least
is the harm I have done
to those I have known
on this earth of whom
indeed many are dead
immune to any apologies
whether said or unsaid.
Yet my mind is driven
backwards time after time
to the myriad moments
of cruelty or insensitivity
regretting while reliving
in that troubled subworld
of memory what cannot
ever be rectified now or then
myself by myself unforgiven.