hear me, O Lord, from the height of
the high place, where speaking is not
necessary to hearing and hearing is
in all languages: hear me, please,
have mercy, for I have hurt people,
though I think not much and where
much never intentionally and I have
accumulated a memory (and some heavy
fantasy) guilt–ridden and as a
nonreligious person, I have no way
to assuage, relieve, or forgive
myself: I work and work to try to
redeem old wrong with present good
:but I'm not even sure my good is good
or who it's really for: I figure I
can be forgiven, nearly, at least
by forgiving; that is, by understanding
that others, too, are caught up in
flurries of passion, of anger and
resentm