USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH FORGIVENESS...

Hello Everybody,

How've you been?? It's really been a long long time I wrote to you all and what better time to write to you as we usher in the New Year - a year we'd hope to start our lives anew and with a prayer that will be blessed and filled with joy, happiness, abundance, love, brotherhood, forgiveness and compassion.

Well, the less said the better, but the last year was filled with sadness and sorrow with the multiplicity of terror attacks all around our country all through the year especially the last one coming in the month of November in Bombay, then the attacks on Christian missionaries all over, the global meltdown wherein thousands lost their job, then the natural calamities that struck the world over and now the New Year hasn't really begun on a great note with Israel continuing to bomb Gaza where death and destruction is looming and today with reports coming in of several blasts that have rocked Assam.

But none the less, I have a little poem which I'd written 5-6 years back when the war situation had erupted that ensued between America and countries like Afghanistan and Iraq where America's attacking spree had destroyed a country and scarred thousands of people for life. It was then that I'd written an innocent poetry on Forgiveness, it may not be the best...but the message I wanted to convey is that the very act of forgiveness may be very difficult to apply and moreso when you're aggrieved by someone's undoing; but the moment you let it go...it is then that the healing takes place...and this is what I hope we'd all apply as we begin this New Year.

I'd hoped that post 9/11 America would not have gone on to attack countries randomly to avenge blood for blood and barter destruction for destruction...I'd hoped that a country as that would have showed to the world a new direction and now look where it's all leading to... with Israel attacking Gaza. But the silver lining here is that post 26/11 in India, the world thought that India would be at war with Pakistan, but Gandhians as we are, we know that the culprit is not the people of Pakistan who should suffer but those who control the reigns of their country should be brought to task, which I'm sure will be realized. After all good begets good and evil begets evil.

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Forgiveness

The most important virtue of all,

Lacks in one and all;

No matter how great or small.

The act in forgiving lies,

By learning to forget the wrong,

Your enemies implied.

Thus when mighty nations are at war,

A gesture of forgiveness;Brings close,

Those who have been torn,

With grief and hatred afar.

Thus when we forget the past,

And approach the dawn of a new day,

We pledge to remain friends always,

Ne'er to be remembered as enemies again.

All this I say is not so easy.

To make the world a better place we vow,

So our steps should move on;

Towards forgiveness now

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This poem of mine was originally published on poetry.com

Today I'll leave you on this note of forgiveness until we meet again. Till then take care and have a blessed New Year.

Love,

Sonyaa