Sense Sonnet - Acher

Painful Renewal

December, 1988,
My daughter, Helga, was 19,
And died suffering the same fate
As many others, unforseen,
When that Pan Am flight blew apart
In a blast over Lockerbie.
My daughter's loss did break my heart.
2009, this man goes free,
Imprisoned for this heinous crime,
But now near death, home he returns.
I will truly try in God's time
To overcome my painful concerns.

To have compassion for this man.
Some of us can't. Some of us can.