Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel your life get handed to you as it were ending in a quick abyss
What you worked so hard for, strive for, loved for
what you gave every ounce of your heart so graciously
all this must go
so you know you may finally realize in your heart
the true definition and spectrum
of kindness.

Before you learn the entire spectrum of kindness,
you must live in a battlefield of angst and pretentious living
You must see how this could affect you,
how your life was being affected by a long journey
of lies and incomplete dreams.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice from inside cries effervescently
and then makes the light arrive when your soul begins to sing.

Then it is only kindness that is the only thing you need in your life
only kindness that makes the day feel so much more brighter
Kindness is what I've been looking for, kindness is what I've missed.


JR 3/22