Chasmic Memory

There's a chasm in the depths of me
where the ground parted between our feet
you stayed and I was hurled into the sea
to drown in my own memory
when I try again to access it
the chasm grips me relentlessly

Who are you, the one I search for,
that calls me from the deep;
from someplace I once tarried
where now my soul does weep?

Do you know the cruelty of longing
for something you can't see?-- 
Not even in your mind's eye
while you plead for memory?

I know the chasm was your doing
and now you want me home
you've watched me seventy-times-seven times get buried
and suffer far too long
my love, you know I forgive you
 and I'd do it all again
if I knew this chasm would finally
within infinity see an end.

Until that day comes though, 
you reach me as you can--
so, I sit and wait beside the sea
and try to remember my long lost friend. 

Photo by Adam Boukhris on Unsplash

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"Seventy times seven" in Matthew 18:22 symbolizes limitless forgiveness, calling believers to forgive others repeatedly without keeping count.

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