Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (Live in London)

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
There’s a tree where the doves go to die
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on it’s jaws

Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallway where love’s never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With it’s very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging it’s tail in the sea

There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it’s been dying for years

There’s an attic where children are playing
Where I’ve got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its “I’ll never forget you, you know!”

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz …
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

And I’ll dance with you in Vienna
I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It’s yours now. It’s all that there is

{Instrumental}

(Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)

~ Leonard Cohen

Sorrow (Poem)

TheSeedSowerz

This Phoenix may never rise

A blight orchard
Plagued with sorrow

What light will fill her void?

The fire burns
But nothing lasts

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I Walked A Mile

In our life we may encounter lots of pains and moments we would not like to encounter, but we have to carry them with us and live with them. Point is that we learn from those not so nice moments and that we can learn from those less pleasant experiences, so that Hard days may strengthen us.

awisewomansjourney

I really like this simple but powerfully stated poem by Robert Browning Hamilton called “I Walked A Mile.”  It is only two stanzas but has a lot to say: 

“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”

I completely agree with what he said in this poem for I have received many more blessings from Sorrow than ever I did from Pleasure!  Please share your thoughts with me on this poem!

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Change your sorrow in joy!

Coming closer to the end of the year
we best forget all the sad moments of the year
and take some extra time to remember the beautiful moments of the past few months.

Change your sorrow in joy!

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Verander uw verdriet in vreugde!

One for Sorrow (song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Taste of Dust

Today’s poem comes from “an old Texan punk” who is “trying to make it in this sea of madness” and as an infinitesimal point may sometimes come to a point of explosion. {Singularity} With the knowledge that this universe is a part of him, voice of a pulsar, burning across the empty spaces, he looks at the past, whilst he might feel the mourning sing, vibrations in the dawn, o’er the graying mountains, blue faces have now gone. {Morning of Mourning}

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Preceding: Nailed to our chairs, never to forget

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Additional reading

For more than Three thousand people fifteen years ago this world came to an end

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Further reading

1. Thoughts on This Day
2. September 11
3. When everything stood still
4. 9/11 – One of the darkest, terrible times for America
5. The Day America Was Attacked/Special Tribute to 9/11 by Budweiser Clydesdale’s
6. 9/11 by Le Mailoa
7. 9/11 by anishabharathsingh
8. 15 Years
9. Survival
10. 9/11 health crisis: death toll from illness nears number killed on day of attacks
11. Of 9/11, Sully, and Hope
12. 9/11 – 15Years Later
13. The 15th Anniversary of 9/11 – We Continue to Remember
14. 9/11: Fifteen Years at War
15. In Rememberance Of
16. Remembering September 11, 2001 – The Jumpers
17. This year, it’s different…
18. Sing ‘N Celebrate, Sept. 11th at 5-6pm
19. A Prayer for 9-11
20. Changed Forever
21. Remember and Never Forget…
22. Where Were You?
23. In Memoriam
24. The day before September 12th
25. The path not chosen after 9/11
26. Facebook’s trending topics algorithm puts hoax story about 9/11 at top
27. The “self-righteous American” Facebook posts have got to stop
28. A Call To Action On Solemn Anniversary Of 9/11
29. 9/11 Blog Hop
30. 9/11: 15 Years Later
31. 15th anniversary of 9/11: How al-Qaeda’s attacks have changed the world
32. 4. i never forget.
33. DPF / Szymborska
34. Somber Tributes Held Nationwide, Locally To Mark 9/11 Anniversary
35. Hillary Clinton Left The 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony Early After Feeling ‘Overheated’
36. Moving 9/11 Tribute Set To The Sounds Of Silence by Disturbed #NeverForget
37. The enduring traumas of September 11
38. Where I was on 9/11
39. It’s 9/11
40. Tuesday Morning
41. Hace 15 años que sucedió el ataque terrorista en Nueva York.
42. The refugee crisis, rising terrorism and seeking reconciliation wisdom

RamJet Poetry

World’s twin bastions

wounded phoenixes

ridden by shadows

plummet on evil wind

casting thunder into cloudless sky

a quaking of steel roots

and iron limbs

downtown sandstorm in the boroughs

the taste of dust

and ashes in my mouth

Pulverulent colossi groaning from

the bloody hands of undead men, 

tainting a loving belief

seek with daggers of speed

to murder those pictures

of an ideal

The hymn of great sorrows

mirrored in every home

victims and heroes all

lay down that eve in burial shroud

the taste of tears and ashes

in our mouthes 

And where

do good men seek

a reason for atrocity bound

innocence claimed for naught

but the taste of dust

and ashes

fires burned at the peaks

broken angels falling to earth

and all who bore witness

could do naught but weep

for what was undone

a kingdom forever changed

by the taste of dust

and…

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In your own heart or outside of it

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“We usually look outside of ourselves for heroes and teachers.
It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek.
The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt.
But our wholeness exists in us now.
Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered.
Eventually we may come to live by it.”
– Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th Anniversary

 

 

Dr Austin Ejaife, [an Olorogun, the ‘Ugo’ of Agbon Kingdom] asks where we look for answers, direction, and meaning in our lives.

These Dreams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Who has not high aspirations becoming somebody very important or well known? When we grow up we are first of all confronted with the female so close to us, because we where inside her for nine months, that we have a special, sometimes very sacred relationship with her. Mostly all infants look up at their mother.

Next in line comes the father who often is pushed from his throne by the teacher. How many children do not go in dispute with their father, because the teacher told so and so? From toddler going into our teens we loose innocence and start comparing those adults more and more.

Looking at those grown ups we at first admire them a lot, for what they can and for what they say. They bring us to dream about who we ourselves could become, … like them …

Dr Austin Ejaife wonders

Do we look outside–dreaming with hopes and aspirations of things to come, things that may or may not someday be in the future? Or do we turn our gaze inward–towards our own heart–to find our true beauty and awaken our power, our potential, our true ability.

Though the world may turn around us in our eyes often we do not believe enough in ourselves. For us it does not seem to be possible that everything that could ever be possible… already lies inside of us. The writer of Finding Your Clarity Of Purpose may find that our true beauty, our power, our potential, our true ability, is patiently awaiting us to look there and discover it, to recognize it, and to use it, but for many people this shall stay a long undiscovered path.

Because many people not knowing that everything is in themselves, they miss out on a lot of things and are not able to find true fulfilment and happiness. We also should know and come to understand that real full happiness with no problems and sorrows at all, does not exist. There is no such thing as a world without sorrow. Like every rose has its thorns our life is full of  thorns but also hopefully full of flowers with nice smells. Problem with many people is that they are so much focussing on the dark side of their life that they do not see the sun-rays nor the vibrant colours.

Ejaife writes

Do not let your vision be clouded with dreams or ideas that some outside force can bring you fulfillment in life… it cannot and will not; only you have the ability to unlock your purpose and potential. Clarity of vision comes to us when we look within our hearts and see ourselves for who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, and then trust ourselves fully and completely.

Why are so many afraid of their inner “I“? why are so many afraid to become confronted with the “I am” they are?

We should be not afraid to grow up and to try to become ourself, daring to look into our own heart to find clarity of purpose and meaning.

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Preceding articles

The I Am to explore

There can only be hope when there is a will to be and say “I am”Find Inspiration and Follow Your Dreams

Believe in your greatness

Believe in yourself!

Be Kinder to Yourself

Be realistic, do not pretend

The world starts with yourself

Little i

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Other articles of interest

 

1. What is life?
2. Looking at three “I am” s
3. There is no true and constant gentleness without humility
4. A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted

 

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Bruxelles Ma Belle

Some people complain that Europeans do not show such a solidarity, like now for Brussels and Paris, when something happens in places like Ankara. They often forget that the other places are very far away from the beds of those Europeans who now felt the terror close to their own home.

It would be nice if people would show more solidarity with the innocent victims at other places, but the big problem is that every day something gruesome happens somewhere in the world and we can’t stay off work every day to go on the streets to show our sorrow for them.

But what we all can do every day is to show our fellow man that we are here for him or her and that we appreciate him or her for what or how he or she is.

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To remember

• Brussels attacks = scorched forever onto memory, =/= care about attacks in other parts of the world.
• this year 223 terrorist incidents around the world.
• which ones have greatest affect

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Preceding articles:

Human tragedy need to be addressed at source

Remain lovingly = No path for softies

Solidarité: The Paris Attack and the Refugee Crisis

Refugees At The Border- A Blessing Or Burden?

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Find also to read:

1. March 22 2016, attacks in Brussels at airport and metro
2. Daesh hits heart of Europe
3. A Black day for Belgium – Brussels Airport ravage
4. Knife-trust in democratic sore back
5. Tears for Belgium
6. Reaction from U.S.A. President Barack Obama
7. For those who call the Brussels Airport attacks a fake or a conspiracy of the government
8. What Associated Press released on Wednesday 23 March 2016
9. US President, Barack Obama Condemns The Outrageous Brussels Attacks
10. Message of Pope Francis I for the 48th World Communications Day

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Carrying others whilst God is carrying you

God’s care will carry you, then you can carry others.>

‘Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…and by his stripes we are healed.’ Isaiah 53:4-5

 

God, we are grateful that You have given us Your son
making our liberation possible

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Anderen dragen terwijl God u draagt

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What moves mountains? Trust!

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry near Montreal, Canada (May 1942)

Antoine de Saint Exupéry was a passionate searcher. He was passionate about life, about spirituality, the depth of mystery. But, for a long time, for him too the skies remained silent. Notwithstanding all his sustained trials, his prayers were not heard. Until one day he discovered that the biggest mercy of prayer consists in – not being heard.
 
Prayer itself  is mercy.
Every human being  sooner or later is confronted with sorrow, suffering, saying goodbye, and come across questions that are not answered or are confronted with problems that cannot be solved. We try everything, but nothing succeeds, nothing works, nothing moves – not through willpower, not through sustained prayer. Sooner or later we ask ourselves: why?

We want an answer.

Interior Museum of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Tarfaya (Morocco) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A sign. In this way in spite of ourselves, we imagine what is good for us. We create an image  that we need to be helped and how and when this should happen. It is exactly at this point that de Saint Exupéry discovered that the answer to his prayer did not coincide with the images he had in mind. He realised that the answer to his prayer exceeds the image created by us. It does not allow to be steered, or the use of words and is only  to be understood by the heart. From a heart that exists through… trust.

Only belief that trusts completely can accept the holy ground of ‘not understanding’.
When we touch the bottom of  intense doubt with our problems – and yet trust – true belief surges. Something becomes visible and tangible which we would otherwise never see, feel or experience.

Then we may discover with surprise, with an inner certitude that does not need a rational explanation, that -in essence- we are inspired.

And stronger : right through the agony of doubt, paradoxally enough, we find inner peace.

– BZN Movement Without a Name  – Proverb of the month

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Additional reading:

1. A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow
2. Rejoice even though bound to grieve
3. The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
4. Trouble is coming
5. Do not be so busy adding up your troubles
6. Life’s challenges may not paralyse you
7. A small trouble is like a pebble
8. Remembering from times of trouble
9. Anxiety is the gap between the now and the later
10. If your difficulties are longstanding, try kneeling
11. A problem not worth praying about isn’t worth worrying about
12. Give your tears to God
13. Crying and trusting ones do not get disappointed
14. Call unto God so that He can answer you
15. Let God’s promises shine on your problems
16. Don’t put a question mark where God put a period
17. Don’t wait to catch a healthy attitude
18. Fearing the right person
19. Trust the future to God
20. Stick to one God
21. Trust God to shelter, safety and security
22. God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
23. Be convinced that we are loved
24. Love been perfected with us
25. Faithfulness when most necessary
26. Have a little talk with the Potter
27. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement
28. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
29. A Living Faith #1 Substance of things hoped for
30. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
31. Confidence
32. Hope begins in the dark
33. It is not try but trust

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• In Search of the Little Prince (kirkusreviews.com)
  A scene of Saint-Exupéry working on the manuscript for Le Petit Prince includes a peek at his imagined characters; the delightful back cover depicts the Little Prince and Tonio, shoes off, sitting in opposite chairs, apparently deep in speculative conversation.
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince (headbutler.com)
  When Robin Williams died, my Facebook screen lit up with one quote after another from “The Little Prince.”I didn’t understand why so many people responded with lines from this book.
• Why Did “The Little Prince” Quotes Suddenly Appear After Robin Williams’ Death? (goodmenproject.com)

  One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

  You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

  All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.

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  those Facebook friends mourning a grown-up who never lost his connection to the child within? They knew just where to look.
• 7 Best Book Covers Of All Time (whytoread.com)
  Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard’s translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry’s unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as close as possible to the French, in language, style, and most important, spirit. The artwork in this edition has been restored to match in detail and in color Saint-Exupéry’s original artwork. Combining Richard Howard’s translation with restored original art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.
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• It’s a Little Lonely (bronwendeklerk.com)
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  “It is lonely when you’re among people, too”
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  Indwelt by the light of God that continually produces good works springing from that love God has poured into our heart before (Rom 5:5), we can experience that there is nothing greater in this world and beyond than His Love offers. God’s Love is better than being right, better than being successful, better than being known, and better than possessing all material things one could wish for.
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Love and forgive this friday

Everyday again we should remember that some 2000 years ago a man was willing to do that what his Father in heaven wanted to be done, and offered himself as a lamb to wash the world of the gravity of sin by his blood.

Still every day we may have to face many struggles, pain, sorrow and many minor and big problems. Often we may see things around us which can annoy us, sometimes people may work on our nerves, but then we see that Light of the Lamb of God that showed us the way to treat others and to step over our boundaries of limitations.

Though living in this world we have decided not to be part ‘of this world’. From our inner soul the light of Christ Jesus, who died for us, is able to transpose us and to bring us to greater waters where we can swim forwards to to ‘isle of rescue’.

In the land prepared by Christ we are to be the example for others, so that they could see how we can be united in peace and show each-other brotherly love. We do have to show those around us that we are not the ones to judge. But we are the ones who are willing to forgive and to reach out our hand of loving-kindness and helpfulness, so that we with many can go together on the way to the opened gate of the Kingdom of God.

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Find additional reading:

1. Poetry of Peace
2. Your struggles develop your strengths
3. Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
4. From pain to purpose
5. Compassion and Discipline
6. Man’s plans prevailed by God’s purpose
7. A Great Gift commemorated
8. An unblemished and spotless lamb foreknown
9. Servant of his Father
10. The Seed Of The Woman Bruised
11. The day Jesus died
12. The Song of The Lamb #1 Visions, symbols and suggested meanings
13. The Song of The Lamb #2 Sevens
14. Kingdom Visions of a Man, Throne and Great crowd
15. Kingdom Visions of Rainbowed angel, Lamb in Mount Zion
16. Kingdom Visions of God’s judgements and Marriage of the Lamb
17. 14 Nisan a day to remember #3 Before the Passover-feast
18. Ransom for all
19. In the death of Christ, the son of God, is glorification
20. Ember and light the ransomed of Jehovah
21. The Song of The Lamb #5 Revelation 5
22. The Song of The Lamb #7 Revelation 15
23. The Song of The Lamb #8 Revelation 15 Lessons for us today
24. God’s Comfort
25. Promise of a Comforter
26. Give your tears to God
27. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope
28. Change
29. Growth in character
30. Breathing to teach
31. Prayer has comforted us in sorrow
32. A Living Faith #7 Prayer
33. A New Jerusalem
34. Judge not according to appearance
35. Belonging to or being judged by
36. Vengeance
37. Forgiveness
38. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
39. Doest thou well to be Angry?
40. Forgiveness always possible
41. A man who cannot forgive others
42. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass
43. Love is like playing the piano
44. Forgiveness is a blessing for the one who forgives
45. The Greatest of These is Love

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  The concept of forgiveness can be a hard thing to digest.  If someone wronged us, granting forgiveness can feel almost as if we’ve been hit twice.  The first time when we were so generously issued the wrong-doing; the second when we struggled to set-aside our ill-feelings and extended the gift of forgiveness.  After all, he/she may have deserved anything but a gift.
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  There are devastating consequences in the personal life and relationships of a bitter person.   The Bible speaks about the development of bitterness in Ephesians 4:31 and the following verse deals with it’s consequences and solution.
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  God tells us we are to be “forgiving one another”.    This is the key to dealing with being resentful over past hurts.   Our bitterness and disappointment in people can only be resolved through forgiveness.   Period.   A bitter person refuses to forgive the offender.
• Forgiveness (po11ycheck.wordpress.com) Reposted from Courageous Christian FatherForgiveness it can be easier said then done. Do you easily forgive others when they do wrong to you? Have you ever had anyone not forgive you and you wished they did? What does it mean to forgive?
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  Christ casted our sins into the sea of forgetfulness. Our sins were cast as far as the East is from the West. Our sins to be remembered no more. So where is the sea of forgetfulness? Well, it is a place that I wouldn’t want to know where it is. Because all is forgotten there. How far exactly is the East from the West? Well just think the Earth is round so, you can keep going and going. Just the same, God’s forgiveness keeps going and is everlasting. If God can forgive our sins, shouldn’t we? See Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13
• Bible Verses to Comfort – It Hurts Me to Forgive – Forgiveness (darrellcreswell.wordpress.com)
  When we have been wronged by someone, a barrier is formed in our hearts. We put up a wall to the offense that hinders us from forgetting, letting go, and moving on.
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  Jesus said we should forgive unconditionally. In contrast, humans put conditions on forgiveness.
• The first to apologize is the bravest, the first to forgive is the strongest, the first to forget is the happiest. (pastormikesays.wordpress.com)
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  I think it is a helpful tool for people to insist on seeing some sort of repentance and restitution from someone who wrongs you before you trust them again. If they are not even sorry for what they’ve done, and they refuse to explain why what they did is wrong, then they can’t be forgiven, and you can’t trust them again.
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  When I raise that with the unconditional forgiveness crowd, they want to insist that there is a difference, that the word “forgive” means different things. I’m not convinced.
• pure and light (madelineranda.wordpress.com)
  I let the enemy convince me my sins are trivial and he lulls me into complacency. he whispers that I’m fine and dandy, that we all live in darkness together and that is a-okay. But this morning as light flooded through my window, over a warm cup of coffee, my lonely and impure heart was brought a beautiful reminder speaking to both lies.

sheetal sharma

Sunlight slits open the dark clouds,
Crushing down my sins and bondage alike.
With Him we too were crucified that day –
Not as mere slaves or rebels but as Sons.

Forgiveness like a Balm to to my bruises,
My heart and soul now rejuvenated –
Speak – “Let the inner voice choose –
Forgiveness over vengeance !”

Harsh neighbors unite,
Arch rivals dialogue,
Nations come together –
As citizens of Humankind.

Judge Not ,nor be judged.
Condemn Not,nor be condemned,
But forgive and be Forgiven,
For Love is the only Balm for my pains.

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