What a lovely poem!
The tone is gentle, the message is inspirational and the change from the teenager's point of view to a more mature point of view is well brought out. The title, brief description and genres all work for the poem. The emotions and imagery are beautifully evoked.

Suggestions:
1. First verse - you've said 'to forgives', I guess you mean 'to forgive'.
2. Whenever I see a poem in which the prompt phrases have been seamlessly incorporated, I feel like reading it through without those words bolded.
Now that the contest is done, maybe you could look at having two versions of the poem, one with the bolded words and one with these in ordinary type.

Thanks for sharing this one!
Write On!



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