The Ragged Edge of Night

by Olivia Hawker

These days, everyone is inclined to band together, even in the cities. Now we look out for our fellow man. We anticipate needs and give small tokens of comfort. We offer the milk of human kindness, free to drink all you will, for every other kind of sustenance is rationed on the stamps, with never enough to satisfy.

True society

If we had taken up this habit of kindness long ago, before we fell into darkness, what suffering might we have spared the world and ourselves?

Kindness The antidote to wars and strife