To prompt some discussion...

This was the ending to the movie "Smoke Signals":

How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream.
Do we forgive our fathers for leavin' us too often...or forever when we were little?

Maybe for scarin' us with unexpected rage? or makin' us nervous because there never seemed
to be any rage there at all?

Do we forgive our fathers for marryin'...or not marryin' our mothers?
Or divorcin' or not divorcin' our mothers?

And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth...or coldness?

Shall we forgive them for pushin' or leanin'? For shuttin' doors?
For speakin' through walls...or never speakin'? Or never bein' silent?

Do we forgive our fathers in our age...or in theirs? Or in their deaths, saying it to them?
Or not sayin' it?

If we forgive our fathers, what is left?

-"Forgiving Our Fathers" by by Dick Lourie