I forgive you for your innocence.
I forgive you for the blood under your tongue;
it is the flesh of your other heart.
I forgive that you bury it,
turn it to a thing that grows underground
in the way a promise promises itself
to lie to itself.
I forgive you for your innocence.
I forgive you for the blood under your tongue;
it is the flesh of your other heart.
I forgive that you bury it,
turn it to a thing that grows underground
in the way a promise promises itself
to lie to itself.