For my own deliverance
and yours, how shall I not
say – I forgive you?
So shall it be for you and me
and for the One who spoke
the light from stars
to touch us now,
still speaking light
and still with scars in glory.
Ref. J L Austin's book of the same title, where he discusses a class of words he refers to as performatives.
Included in Lent Poems.
Stephen Halliday 