Personal Pandora
By forest_for_ever
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Personal Pandora
Hefty straps wrapped the mystery casket
Hearty Oak enclosing a troubled past
My life both righteous and misguided
Every breathing moment fabled
Sealed with forbidding bonds
Please God give me the key
I must insert the missing
Many deeds I should have done
I want to show the world a godly me
“What’s done cannot be broken
Your deeds are sealed in history
I have the key well hidden
Upon Judgement Day we’ll open
Good intentions always broken
You must your unlived future face
Release the good that lies within you
Pandora’s hope came too late
Don’t let the past impound your soul
Make living good and loving your final goal”
Then the visionary key began to fade
The casket’s contents stayed well hidden
“take the righteous fork, moving ever forward
Change the past? Tis eternally forbidden
Take a new box and begin to fill it
With hope eternal”
All was darkness for a moment
A distant light drew me onward
The gloom was of my making
The light of hope I will be taking.
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Oh, that's a lovely picture,
Oh, that's a lovely picture, not just of regrets, but repentance, and the freedom to leave behind and move forward, not with confidence in self, but in the Christ who promised to help by his Spirit, having placed that desire in the heart in repentance and faith and giving forgiveness! And though we slip and slide, he lifts up and on. Rhiannon
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A box of metaphorical
A box of metaphorical delights, Graham.
Best wishes, Luigi
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Love the hope and the light
Love the hope and the light in the end of this poem. I believe there is always hope...there is always a light you can follow, if you look for it. Beautifully written. 
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