Confessions
by Kathleen Raine via sybil Friday, Feb 21 2014, 7:14am
international / poetry / post

wanting to know all
i overlooked each particle
containing the whole

intent on one great love, perfect,
requited and forever,
i missed love everywhere

lifelong i have been reading
book after book, searching
for wisdom, but through
my own limited understanding

forgive me, forgiver,
whether you be infinite, omniscient
or some unnoticed other,
my existence has hurt

being what i am
what could i do but wrong?
yet love can bring
to heart healing
to chaos meaning