How to be kind

How to be Kind

it’s understood you won’t get 

everything you ever wanted 

it’s true you’re still the flower 

of someone’s eye 

there’s maybe room for life 

to grant you more wishes 

you don’t have to feel 

so haunted while alive

when you see yourself 

in someone else 

when you find something

to agree upon 

when you ask  

for a little help 

in the face of 

a new situation 

feel a crack in the armor 

that turns into a smile 

might remember that amour 

you felt as a child 

there it is dusty

in the back of your mind

that discarded notion

how to be kind 

as you face another evening

as someone’s invented 

a billion new ways 

to be lonely

as there are compelling 

new arguments to be made 

about cruelty 

and those to despise

I hope you go another 

way and remember 

those old and naïve

and discredited 

sages of another time 

and never relent 

and always be inventing

new ways to be kind