Subimal Sinha-Roy Poet Couplet

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For Regina McIntosh's Contest "Write To A Friend". Date October 4, 2026.

Empathy Ambrosia Of Divine Fountain

I thought for a long time you were my good friend,
trusted you with a faithful mind, I didn’t pretend.

But in my difficult times you had betrayed me,
I saw the mask you wore fall discarded in debris.

Your flashing deceptive eyes then revealed
you seethed, with an inferno of hatred you’re filled.

Your twisted tongue spilled out words unkind,
smeared with the toxin of the malicious mind. 

The scruple of your sane senses turned into ember, 
erupted violently out of the fuming fiery chamber.

It flew in the spreading smoke of stifling spite,
consumed the remains of reason you lost outright.

I didn’t stray away from you to self-heal, dejected,
or sought a shelter in the den of disdain, isolated.

Nor did I ignite another silent flame within me
to face you and feel good in retaliation with glee.

I realized that a fire can’t ever extinguish or contain 
another fire, for both burn the space of restrain.

I faced you with self-assured confident calm gaze,
for the serenity of my soul you couldn’t ever blaze.

The flow of forgiveness emanated from within me
as the empathy ambrosia of divine fountain spree.  

The emerging lenience suffused me with cool potion,
doused the fire within me by ardent absolution. 

In the space of my bruised essence that mended slow,
I felt the benign breeze of prudent composure blow.

I rose from the ashes where the wronged feeling grew 
to send from my tolerant heart good wishes to you.

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