<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sin and Stuff</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord – if that is how<br>a stranger, I, should address<br>that stranger, you –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I – or one resembling I –<br>have done so many actions<br>which the world would classify<br>as crimes, or sins, according as<br>the one who classified them might believe…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the classifications which<br>men attribute boldly to that presumed you, <br>there must be crimes or sins which are unnamed<br>which I have done; good left undone…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">indeed, your devotees would see it as a sin<br>if any single breath, any heartbeat passed<br>without their holding you in mind…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if I understood forgiveness, as beyond<br>the way we scold our children, even punish them, <br>yet never cease to love…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then I would ask forgiveness of my sins<br>in that same spirit; yet I would ask, first, <br>understanding; mine, and yours<br>(though I would hope them finally the same) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for I believe that really, the you<br>that I perceive you as –<br>that really, you’re my best friend…<br>who understands my crimes and sins<br>better than I do myself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in that understanding, love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461057" data-title="Sin and Stuff de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Lord – if that is how a stranger, I, should address that stranger, you – I – or one resembling I – have done so many actions which the world would classify as crimes, or sins, according as the one who classified them might believe… and..."></div> </div> </div>

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