Much Pardon

Pardon my French,
pardon my brevity,
pardon my lack
of ability for levity.
Pardon my planted
unpardoned feet
that need much pardoning
for the pardoning they defeat.
Pardon my words,
pardon my ignorance,
pardon my lack of interest
in your lack of approval for my boldness.
Pardon my offense,
pardon my speech,
pardon my counterparts,
your colleagues who love to leech.
And on my behalf,
pardon yourself,
the apparent judge of all mankind,
the eventual executioner to one's own self.

To Give It All Back

All that I am and all that I lack,
here I am to give it all back.
Kneeling here on humbled knees
I can do nothing but beg and plead
for You to accept a soul that rejected
You for too long as it pushed and neglected.
Now I have finally seen the error
in my ways of selfish sin and vow to ne'er
again from here forth do
that to a holy God like You.
The love you have shown me
is only dwarfed by a mercy
that took this wretched one back
(no matter what it may have lacked),
to save it from an eternal hell
away from You and what You spell.
I love You and will thank You
every day until eternity with all I do.
In every action and every emotion,
here and now I pledge my eternal devotion;
as I say this with every fiber of my being,
I love you, Lord.  From your son here kneeling.