--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal"
> <L.Shaddai@> wrote:
> >
> > Forgive
> >
> > "That slight misdeed of yesterday,
> > why should it mar today?
> >
> > The thing he said, the thing you did,
> > have long since passed away;
> >
> > For yesterday was but a trial;
> > today you will succeed,
> > And from mistakes of yesterday
> > will come some noble deed.
> >
> > Forgive yourself for thoughtlessness,
> > do not condemn the past;
> >
> > For it is gone with its mistakes;
> > their mem'ry cannot last;
> >
> > Forget the failures and misdeed,
> > from such experience rise,
> > Why should you let your head be bowed?
> > Lift up your heart and eyes!"
>
> I would forgive but here alas
> Wanton villains cannot a pass
> The seed is sown the deed is done
> Now heed the plow on furrow run
> Last rite we bury beneath earth
> Their bitter barbs and laughs of mirth
> Wee trifles cast from side to side
> Bother not the weathered hide
> Fear not the vaunted pixel word
> A ghostly trace of fight endured
> We live in light on common ground
> And here reside one family found
>
> raunchydog
>
Hi RD,
Do you have any of these poems on poetry.com?
The last two lines are touching and, reminded me of one poem I had
sent in. N.
