'kindness' - By Naomi Shihab Nye

[walker]

Kindness

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

You must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow.

You must speak to it till your voice

Catches the thread of all sorrows

And you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,

Only kindness that ties your shoes

And sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,

Only kindness that raises its head

From the crowd of the world to say

It is I you have been looking for,

And then goes with you everywhere

Like a shadow or a friend

- Naomi Shihab Nye

oh

so hard

so very very hard

yet right there, at our fingertips

[walker]

thankyou abee xxxx

hope

in some small way

that her words help you

it seems so easy, written down, yet so hard to reach out and hold onto

[snowman]

(((walker)))