(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.
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