Kindness

Kindness Your kindness Lord runs to greet me in generous petals of fragrant compassion floating into my stingy spirit, dances in the abyss of my selfishness, raises up my bankrupt soul, gives light to my nearsighted heart opening veins of sympathy in an avalanche of mercy for hungry children gazing at empty cupboard shelves, the new Lazarus begging at the city gates for food, feeding a faithful four footed companion on a rope leash first, waiting for a crust of kindness baked in empathy to fall in the doorway of a grocery store, shivering in tatters – no warm coat or bed only a pillow of cement or a park bench. Your kindness blinds malevolence, deafens insolence, cripples violence in floods of gracious benevolence with tides of charity asking only make a difference with what you have – a can of soup, a piece of fruit, a word born on the tides of charity. Your kindness to me shares the perfume gratitude softly falling from your tongue beating back vanity and rivalries so I may chant the living lyric of your lovingkindness, open gracious arms, recite a litany of glory in a cup of grace to thirsty pilgrims, poor or comfortable, traveling by my side with open eyes of generosity. kindness builds love empathy heals hearts ~ compassion’s cradle 8-17-21 Contest: Kindness Sponsor: Regina McIntosh