Wishes

What I wish for is kindness and care What I hope for is understanding Working together to bring us Freedom acceptance and loving As we join together to support To survive the difficulties of life And weather human greed, Teach each other about beauty And survival accept our strengths Our differences, weakness, and To plant seeds and life, train animals, Watch and care for bees, water the world Develop medicines, while some nail boards Hospitals and homes I wish for kindness In a sigh, we lost our distant neighbor quietly Now he is gone wife and dog blocks away alone Tomato plants uncared for weeds grown So much gone while I hoped for kindness and care But all now is quiet I wished I had known