Haiku Horizons- Shade

This is for Haiku Horizons and this week's prompt is 'Shade'

I cast upon you 

The black shade of my evil revenge

Alas! I lie in grave too...

5-7-5

The Best Revenge

Every one of us, at some point of time or the other has felt ditched and used. It is a very common feeling but the most important thing is how we really manage our revenge and anger. Some people are extremely vindictive and they literally plot strategies and traps to hit back with double intensity. I read a quote by Gautam Buddha some time back; it said ‘when you throw a burning coal at someone, you burn your fingers first’, and I feel this is absolutely true. I feel there is no point in burning with vengeance day and night. I believe that success is the best revenge. Focus on your goal and become more successful than those who have hurt you. And believe me, ignoring and outshining your enemy is the best “clean” defeat he can suffer at your hands. 

I have tried to pen down my feelings in these few lines of poetry:

With my heart burning with vengeance, a curse came to my lips 

For I still remorse that time my heart was crushed to pieces

Words and more words, harsh as stones and poison arrows

Pierced through me and made an insignia of sorrows

But unlike you, I shall never stoop that low

And I forgive you for being reason of my woe

My lips stayed closed and parted not

My eyes now fixed at my own rainbow

I have attained freedom from all mental filth

For I know that revenge is a murderer

And two graves always she digs

I thank god for our separation

And that in you, I do not see my reflection

I am whatever, but not like you my foe

For it’s not thorns but flowers that I now sow

I refuse to take this path of darkness

Coz I know that my best revenge being only success