Tag: Kindness

• For P -with love

  March 15, 2026

  Poetry

  Sometimes we get a chance to say goodbye and thank you. I did, in a letter. She wasn’t a relative but I had always known her. Happy first Mother’s Day in heaven. She talked so muchI could not get a word inBut she lived aloneSo she needed to shareShe talked about folksAs if I had… Read.

• Burden

  October 3, 2025

  Poetry

  Can I touch your shoulder?Show you that I care?Our little lives brushSo closely by one another – Our heartbreaks pass so nearThey can hear each other breatheBut they do not speakExcept in tearsOr tired facesHeld up by a desire To manage somehowAnd not be a burdenBut you are not a burdenLet me walk beside youFellow… Read.

• What will you leave behind?

  September 8, 2025

  Poetry

  What will you leave behind as you go?I hope I leave only footprintsWhere I have journeyedNot the scratch of graffiti On the lives that touched mineNor the rotting stench of bad attitudeOr ugly behaviourLittering the paths I trodI cannot tellI fear there are wounds I have givenI wish I might with kindnessWipe them awayBut gentleness… Read.