A Touch of Kindness
A TOUCH OF KINDNESS
Kindness is a gift you get from heaven,
Reaches you through humans
Or through things around you
Created by God on earth.
One such act of kindness touched me
Touched me deep in my heart
When around Lyderhorn, a sleepy village
Lodged on the banks of Norwegian Loddefjord
I was on a field work looking at the Caledonian rocks.
There a gracious lady named Julia Aasen
Rented me a room with a kitchen.
She needed money for her husband,
A fisherman, had died a year ago.
My work was going on well until on one rainy day
While crossing a mossy rock ledge
I lost balance and slipped a good ten feet
My backpack disappeared in a creek,
An arm of the deep blue fjord below.
I lost my wallet, money and cards, and with them my poise.
I couldn’t pay the weekly rent nor could I buy the provisions.
Finding me, a stranger, in dire need of help
Julia said I needn’t pay the room rent for a week
And be her non-paying guest, give her company
Although I knew how badly she needed the money I gave.
Supported by her hospitality I could finish my work on time
And return to Bergen on a bus ticket she purchased for me.
Julia no longer lives in the hamlet by the fjord
But wherever she is now
I know it can’t be but heaven
For she made me realize
Random kindness doesn’t come
From a random person
It flows from a special heart
Where an angel resides.
March 4, 2018.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2018
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