Forgiveness....Divine? ? Poem by Lodigiana Poetess

Why is forgiveness so hard to find?
Shorn up and buried deep within an unfathomable pit of pride
Time erodes the edges of guilt, removing the seductive lustre,
reducing it to pallid pyrite.
No glister remains....
Forgiveness breaks the illusion of perfection.
Forgiveness breaks the fragility of a once perfect relationship,
into an acceptance of a fractured love.
A meaningless sorry is a dagger to the heart,
inflicting a perpetual wound.
When Pride is no longer successful achievement but a biblical conceit,
Forgiveness can be the balm, the emollient to soothe, to comfort and to heal.
To find Forgiveness is to relinquish the past
and look for 'the thing with feathers' we call hope!