Marie Antoinette ~ Nov. 2, 1755 to Oct. 16, 1793

Lessons In Forgiveness


Marie Antoinette
Did not say "let them eat cake"
Yet the lie lives on

Blame so harshly cast
To another won't evict
One's own guilt nor blame

Can you imagine
Your child marrying so young
Ruling as a teen

Can you imagine
Sending her off forever
To a foreign land

Forsaking her past
Cast into dark hatreds old
Webs of deception

Innocence is sent
Packed with beauty and with grace
Into the slaughter

Can you see your child
Moved at such a tender age
She who loves flowers

Such goodness and grace
Perhaps on earth should not be
Yet souls come to teach

Brave and true they shine
Unrecognized in their lands
Maligned through ages

The lesson here dear
An eye for an eye must part
Forgiveness must reign

Unconditional
Love is that destination
Open and boundless

Most of all Love is
Here to awaken us all
Into non-judgment

Into forgiveness
Releasing ourselves from blame
Releasing "others"

Marie Antoinette's
Wisdom shone from her dear soul
Innocence maligned

Now is time for us
To awaken from judgment
And release us all

From the bonds of hate
From the bonds of separateness
From death's illusion

Each recognizing
The Light - the roles we have played -
Hide and seek with Love

It's an old story
Innocence reviled in fear
Awake from the dream

Forgive the actors
In this play upon this stage
And awake...as Love




Haiku of
G Mayer 2006