That you were once unkind now brings tranquillity <br />and for all the pain that you once dished out <br />it doesn’t anymore bother me <br />and nothing now can bring about <br /> <br />a true reckoning, or revenge taken <br />as it’s been a hell of a long time <br />and I am not anymore shaken <br />at what I had to suffer at your crime <br /> <br />and still the acts of destiny hits <br />much harsher than anything that I would have tendered <br />but truly its piercing meets exactly where it fits <br />as if my woe have been remembered: <br /> <br />in reckoning all men before God meets a fee: <br />mine absolution, yours a punishment to ransom me. <br /> <br />[Reference: Sonnet 120 “That you were once unkind befriends me now” by William Shakespeare.]<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-you-were-once-unkind-now-brings-tranquillity/
