How Many Times Had You Been Forgiven?

I haven't done one thing to them,
To be treated in this manner.

'Perhaps it wasn't that one thing you did.
Maybe it was an accumulation,
Of many things you did that were previously done.'

I hadn't thought of it that way.

'How many times had you been forgiven? '

That doesn't matter.
They know me.

'Well...
Perhaps your disrespect,
And negligence for years detected...
Says it all.'

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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