Forgiveness
(Based on a real incident.....)
In a whiff of salubrious morning air
The newly blossomed flowers looked all too fair
They had an unseen radiant gleam
And resembled the ones I had in my dream
In my garden they happened to bloom
After a rainy night of ever deepening gloom
In daylight, dazzling their beauty and glory
They seemed to narrate an enticing story
Those blossoms had a mysterious grace
That I thought of placing them in my vase
While I stood admiring them in rising ecstasy
I saw my neighbor looking at them in growing jealousy
With dusk fall, when I looked out into my garden
Those beauties were no more there to gladden
Someone had stealthily plucked them and was gone
And my poor heart in despair began to moan
To my dejection, I saw the mother plant cruelly pulled out
And felt a piece being sliced out from my heart
I guessed who had stolen it with their fresh sprouts
To confirm, I sent an unsuspecting visitor to her house
There it stood newly potted and kept hidden in a corner
My resentment grew stronger as I often suspected her
To be rude, never returning my gesture of warmth
Though my neighbor, I decided to keep her at arm’s length
And never to forgive, for I loved that plant so dear
Buying it at a heavy price, had long waited, it to flower
Then I heard a faint whisper from deep inside
They were words mild, but seemed to chide
“Why do you look all too down cast
Over a trifle, you have irrevocably lost,
What’s gone is gone and shall never come to stay
And the pain it causes has to wither away.
Forgive and forget, she will turn your friend
In due course everything shall come to mend”
The dictates of my conscience, I resolved not to thwart
And felt a heavy load being lifted off my heart!
June.27. 2022
~Placed Fourth~
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Copyright © Valsa George | Year Posted 2022
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