“The Prayer” by TaMiMi Q8,Creative Commons “Attribution-ShareAlike” licence at Flickr..
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
– Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness Lane
FORGIVENESS LANE is old as youth,
You cannot miss your way;
’T is hedged with flowering thorn forsooth
Where white doves fearless stray.You must walk gently with your Love,
Frail blossoms dread your feet—
And bloomy branches close above
Make heaven near and sweet.Some lovers fear the stile of pride
And turn away in pain—
But more have kissed where white doves hide
And blessed Forgiveness Lane!Three Quatrains
THE CUP
SHE said, “Lift high the cup!â€
Of her arm’s weariness she gave no sign,
But, smiling, raised it up
That none might see or guess it held no wine.FORGIVE ME NOT!
FORGIVE me not! Hate me and I shall know
Some of Love’s fire still burns within your breast!
Forgiveness finds its home in hearts at rest,
On dead volcanoes only lies the snow.THE ROSE
ONE deep red rose I dropped into his grave,
So small a thing to give so great a friend!
Yet well he knew it was my heart I gave
And must fare on without it to the end,
(Click me! I am a song!)
“This Grudge”
by Alanis Morissette