“Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?” ~ Leslie Miklosy

We can hold resentments, holding people hostage
who offend us…or did decades ago.
But if we act as prison guards we’d constrained
as much as they. Or we can know they hurt us,
know we were wronged, but realize they’re human,
suffering as we have been. And we can release them,
leave them in their misery and go our separate ways.
But the best way is to lift them up, to wish them well,
to will for them the peace we want to hold
and the vistas open up of wondrous places,
delightful times, we would have missed
had we stayed behind to act as prison guards.