forgive : i feel it is a tough word in general and a tough word for a haiku too.
so here’s my try :
” thou hast my lady,
hurt her not, forgive she may,
as lost love, i won’t “
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i donno if people can get what i tried to tell, i would just say that this haiku’s fictional context is
” my love is with an other man, her only man (she never was mine, in fact), but i still love her, for eternity.
and i warn ( not in grudge, but in a concerned urge, for my lady) him, as she chose him, above me,
i warn him not to disappoint her or hurt her because i wouldn’t if i was him.
O’ love,
lost love.”
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This post is an entry in Haiku Challenge for April 2012 at Haiku Heights. The prompt being “forgive”.