Poetry: "Forgiveness"

Can one simply and easily return the spark of life to an empty shell?
Take back the moment when life was taken.
Go back.
Do over.
Put right what once went wrong...

Or is change irreversible?
If history can be rewritten, and all sins forgiven,
will there be no difference between what was, and what it became-
because I changed it, then changed it back?

Forgiveness is like divorce.
Agree to put an end to it-
but never go back
to where we were.
No matter our smiles,
the deed is done.

Once altered, a thing is never original.
Once sinned, never completely clean.
Once stained, never again white.
Forgive, but not forget.