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# Apology
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/apology/
- Published: 2025-09-23T01:00:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T20:57:51.000Z
- Description: For the promises I never made, or kept; for the friends I wronged, or let down, or lost touch with; for doors I failed to hold open, grandmothers who bore their groceries unaided,...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

For the promises I never made, or kept; for the  
friends I wronged, or let down, or lost touch with;  
for doors I failed to hold open, grandmothers who  
bore their groceries unaided, children who asked  
for nothing—a high-five or word of praise;

for the Azaleas I let wither, and saplings orphaned  
at the nursery, weeping in their pots; for branches  
untrimmed, and unneighborly feuds; for the times  
I left dog poop where it lay, and the times I raged  
against those who did the same; for my many rages,

justified and not; for unkind thoughts, and deeds,  
and turns of phrase, though I knew how kindness could  
save a life; for the leak I didn’t fix, the mold that grew,  
the money I wasted on this, and whims, and petty wants;  
for all that I could have fixed, or built, or torn down;

for when I did too little, or too much, or nothing at all;  
for cowardice, and conceit dressed as bravery; for  
ill-fitting clothes, and shaggy beard, and ill-timed jokes;  
for my belief, or lack of belief, in God, in Democracy, in  
this or that war; for the peace I shattered with talking...