. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins
John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
atonement, blessings, forgetting, inevitability, pleading, preservation, remembering, renunciation, sins, sorrow, time