The magic of kindness

(Nimue)

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the power of kindness to heal and transform. Rather than write something more like an essay, this one emerged as a poem.

Kindness

Kindness softens me

Gentle rain on parched ground

Melting into vulnerability

Frost beneath spring sun.

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Yielding to life

Blackberries ripen into sweetness

Willingly defenceless

A leaf lifted by the wind.

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I will not be a fossil

A memory of life echoed in stone

No rigid rock-held ghost

Unable to move.

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One breath at a time,

Peeling off the old life

A dragonfly tears from nymphhood

Restrictions disintegrate.

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Kindness easing drama into peace

Dries butterfly wings in the sun

Discarded eggshell bright against soil

Always opportunities to begin.