He cut her off, saying he’d heard from her psychiatrist and he’d read the reports but, most importantly, he’d seen the tape – the one where she deliberately attempted to suffocate her baby with her hand and then with a pillow - three times – and he’d watched each time as the baby fought for air; as the baby fought to live; flailing helplessly against an enemy 20 times his size – and he hadn’t seen mental illness; he’d seen evil.
He said a baby shouldn’t have to fight to live against the person who gave him life in the first place.
Those images on tape "were seared into his brain, captured forever on his retinas and he could see them whenever he closed his eyes; he suspected they would haunt him until his eyes could see no more".
For the truth is, once you see and know evil, you can’t unsee, you can’t unknow.
Too true, my friend - but you can try to substitute those images with images of all the beauty that still surrounds you.
You can try to supplement knowledge of the evil that exists with reminders of all the good being done by hundreds of people every day involved in those same situations.
You may not always succeed… but you can try.
Yes, by God, you can try...
and, by the grace of God, somedays, you'll even succeed.
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