Read Poem: Experiment, by Joshua Burgamy

We need to forgive ourselves our humanness. We are messy creatures. We all contain infinite
emotions that we grapple with understanding. We were never taught this stuff. We try to learn as
we go. So we experiment. Countless If Then statements is our existence. We fail. We hurt. No
results. The same results. Different results. Do we even want results? If this heart beats then this
blood pumps. If I think of us that blood pumps a little faster. Experiment. Movement. Push. Try.
Fail. Explore. Find. Lose. These are not easy things; what it is to be human. They may be
impossible things. So forgive us our faults. Forgive our love. Forgive our hate. Forgive our hope.
Forgive our failed attempts at perfection. Forgive my heart for hurting yours. Give grace for our
effort. That is all any of us can do is try. Try to accept love. Try to become our true self. Try to
accept your heart. Try to accept other’s experiments. Try to wake with a smile on your face. You
may fail a thousand times but those were a thousand more days to experience the absolute
wonder this grand experiment is. This beautiful, messy, impossibility that we share. We can’t
help but to share all of this. That is part of being human, that sharing. We share pieces of our
selves at all times. We talk. We listen. We sing. We dance. We write. We weep. We read. We
learn. We look. We smile. We wonder. We hope. We love each other. We hurt each other. We
forgive each other. And all that; Is just being a regular messy human. We are all just trying. And
I am sorry if I made your existence any more difficult than it need be. Those actions were a
failed experiment that I have learned from. Those actions do not reside in me anymore. I love
myself too much to allow myself to hurt others thru my own selfish fears. That love came from
forgives. And so that is what I put out into the world, forgiveness. The beauty it leaves behind is
worth it. A grand experiment indeed.