Let us forget

Let us forget with generosity

Those who cannot love us.

Pablo Neruda

And those who try and fail

and for whom generosity becomes

a stricture round the heart.

Let us no longer

rewrite old conversations

with lies to ease the wounds

of memory.

Let us cease to mourn at the graves

of misunderstanding.

Let our minds forget

what our hearts cannot,

and let us forget what might have been

had not wisdom come too late

or not at all.