Absolution

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Absolution (4:13)
(Leslie Claussen) Listen

Mother, this is the only way
my voice can reach you now
so many things are possible
this has to be
'cause I've been far too long
carrying this anger
in the hollow place inside me
where you used to be

the past, unchanging,
is etched in graveyard stone
and old scars, visible and otherwise
so I am left to find
some kind of absolution
in setting free the words
I've locked so long inside

I want to say I'm sorry
I want to say I've missed you
I want to say I love you most of all
I hoped for years that you'd come home
but you were too ashamed to face me
you and I are only human, after all

and I sometimes wonder
what you might say to me now
if we could somehow sit and talk
like people do
would you own me proudly
would you kiss me gently
could we finally leave behind what's lost
and start on something new?

you have to know I'm sorry
you have to know I've missed you
you have to know I love you most of all
you reached as far as you had arms
I reached as far as I knew how
but I am still my mother's daughter, after all

I wish you could have realized
how welcome you'd have been
I kept my forgiveness
waiting
like a flower
I still keep it, dried and pressed
stronger than I'd ever guessed
in remembrance of my mother -
who loved me when she could

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