Kindness

Kindness

How grand a goddess

How strong a knight

How clean you make the heart

What a good sense of style you have,

And

Oh! How well you arrange the furniture in my soul

Kindness, you make love possible

For people whom I couldn’t reach without you no matter how I stretched

Kindness, you make happiness possible

How you let me share the space with people whom I could not accept by myself because I am dry, and hurt.

Oh kindness, how when one dares to reach for you

You pull them up

And let them cry tears of joy.

That rain that washes out our hearts.

Oh kindness! You know that I want to love him but that I don’t know how to

And I want to save him from lovelessness

I want to stamp on the crawlies that crawl up his legs

And you let me.

You show me how

You take my message across the space

That I cannot take there without you.