Advice from outside the Righteous Church

It would be
so easy to forgive her, Harry.
The lever of the muscle
is just over your chest.
You know that. We all
know that.

Most of us live
in cold alliances,
which are ok
as long as we are
strong and business-like
but as we slide
blindly toward helplessness,
very few of us are family.

Did you learn
not to forgive her
from a book? Is it
one of those tasks
that books seem to make
impossible for you?