The Power of Forgiveness

I received this beautiful poem about the journey of two friends from a friend whom I just get reconnected recently through facebook after twenty six years we had lost contact.

The poem is really touching as the power of forgiveness is the key to maintain good relationships. To my dear friend, thank you for sharing it with me.


TWO FRIENDS

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT
DURING SOME POINT OF THE
JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT;
AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE
OTHER ONE IN THE FACE!
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT,
BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND:
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE...

THEY KEPT ON WALKING
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS
WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO BEEN SLAPPED
GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE!
AND STARTED DROWNING
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR
DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE :
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND
SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM
'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE ON THE SAND AND
NOW, YOU WROTE ON A STONE, WHY?'
THE FRIEND REPLIED, WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US,
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND
WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY

BUT WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE,
WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT.