No Crime Beyond Forgiveness by Linda Winchell

There is no crime beyond forgiveness,
It is every persons need,
For all anger that is harbored,
In not forgiving ones misplaced, misguided deed.

No true crime has been committed,
Just words said in angers haste,
Left with the bitters of its spoils,
For ones tongue, left to taste.

To show another forgiveness’s venerability,
Is not an easy task, I know,
But it is what God asks of us,
To all our fellow man to show.

So if you are in need of forgiving,
Or maybe need some for yourself one day,
Be sure that you see it’s quickly given,
So you might happily, go about your day.

Poetry Analyser:

There is a saying " To err is human, To forgive is divine." The poet stated this in the third stanza, where she said that,"To show another forgiveness’s venerability, Is not an easy task, I know," The poet uses this poem to reach out to the family members of convicts and trying to tell them that they should learn to forgive the convicts. From the line, "No true crime has been committed, Just words said in angers haste," and " In not forgiving ones misplaced, misguided deed." shows that the poet is trying to tell the family members that the convicts are only misguided at that point and they only did something illegal out of recklessness. So he urged the family not to bear a grudge against the convicts. From the fourth stanza onwards, the poet then broke the fourth wall by talking to the readers, that if they ever need to forgive others, then do it quickly before it is too late.