I Have No Right

Forgive Me 

by Judith Skillman

Poem by Anne-Marie Derése, translated by Judith Skillman.

Forgive me if I have laughed
in your chapels,
forgive me if I have slammed
the hospital door,
forgive me for the noise,
for life,
for the love to which
I have no right.
Forgive me for not resembling you.