Forgiveness

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December 22, 2023

For Robert James Liguori's Forgiveness Contest

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In your glaring eyes I see an inferno of anger within, you splutter words of malicious mind like the acid rain, as sane senses turning into ember ashes rise in my view. I don’t abandon you in the cruel cauldron of hatred, nor do I blaze you in the flame of rabid retaliation instead, for fire can’t douse fire, as wrath in my soul you can’t spew. I inundate you in flow of forgiveness spurting like fountain, shower of absolution drenches you, douse the fire of disdain, you rise from ashes of remorse at the burnt edge of calm true. I pray to God, for strength of mind and wisdom of sense, so I can absolve the sinners, a pledge of my sincere essence, forgive kindly others for wrong doing, I plead my soul to pursue.

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Unseeking Seeker

Date: 12/21/2023 11:49:00 PM

Beautiful poem, Subimal. Indeed forgiveness is essential for self-healing. I’ll leave you with this thought: forgiveness presupposes a sense of injury, arising from belied expectation. Remove expectation and accept what is as is, a bubble of manifestation and there remains no sense of injury and no one to forgive.

Subimal Sinha-Roy
Date: 12/22/2023 1:03:00 AM

Thank you for your read and for the wonderful comment. Truly, expectation has the seeds of denial and frustration, but it's also innate that can't be dispensed with without the driving sense of detachment. If in oneness one finds the self, for deprivation there is no one to blame, and hence, no one to forgive. Take care.