Good Wishes For My Enemy
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December 26, 2023
For Anoucheka Gangabissoon's Good Wishes For My Enemy Contest
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I thought for long you were my good friend,
trusted you with a faithful mind to the end,
but in the difficult times you betrayed me,
saw the mask you wore fall discarded in debris.
Your flashing deceptive eyes revealed
you seethed inside, the inferno of anger filled.
The twisted tongue spilled out words so unkind,
smeared with the toxin of the malicious mind.
The scruple of sane sense turned into ember,
erupting out of the fuming fiery volcanic chamber,
flew in the spreading smoke of stifling spite,
consuming the remains of reason you lost outright.
I didn’t run away from you to self-heal dejected,
or sought shelter in the den of disdain isolated,
nor did I ignite another flame within me
to face you and feel good in retaliation with glee.
As a fire can’t ever extinguish or contain
another fire, for it burns the space of restrain,
I faced you with self-assured confident calm gaze,
for the serenity of my soul you couldn’t blaze.
The flow of forgiveness emanated from within
as the embracing nectar of divine fountain,
emerging empathy drenched me with cool shower,
tender touch of absolution doused the fire.
In the space of bruised essence transformed slow,
I felt the benign breeze of wise composure blow.
I arose from settled ashes where wronged feeling grew,
to send from my tolerant heart good wishes to you.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2023
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