It’s easy to say to those who retain
The hurt and the shame of what’s gone
“If You can forgive, let go of the pain
Forgive and forget” and move on
 
“Forgive and forget?”
No, I’ve not done that yet
Forgiving is easy to do
It may heal the pain
But the scars still remain
They’re with you whatever you do
 
A scar is a mark recording the fact
That damage has sometime occurred
The way that You look, the way that You act
Behaviour that may seem disturbed
 
Because of the pain
We feel in the brain
In the heart, in the soul, in the mind
Behaviour is learned
When finger’s are burned
And actions forever defined
 
Forgiving the cause may help salve the pain
May bury and hide it away
It will come again, for the scars still remain
They’re fixed now, and here they will stay
 
The hurt once begun
Might still be undone
But the scars are now permanent
You struggle in vain
To reformat your brain
To unlearn what the scars represent
 
We have to forget the things of the past
The scars we’d rather not shew
We don’t have to hold the memories fast
And they’ll take their pain when they go