BE KIND TO EVERYONE...

Be kind to everyone,

For you never know the battles they are facing or fighting,

You never see the tears behind their eyes,

You are not there when their torrents of bitter tears fall,

In the silence and solitude of their private places.

 

Be kind to everyone,

Because you don't want to be the last straw,

That makes their human [camels] backs break!!!

Because we don't always see beyond the mask of smiles,

That so many of us wear to cloak and hide our dreadful pain...

 

Be kind to everyone,

And even if that seems impossible,

Which we know it sometimes does.

Then please DO NOT be deliberately cruel,

That's the least I can ask, the very least I ask of you my dear friends.

 

Be kind to everyone,

Because it is what we did automatically as children,

And it's the best way to be, indeed everyone says so.

And even when we fail, let's not stop there just because we can,

Let's pick ourselves up, look deep into our hearts and do better, be kinder...

 

Be kind to everyone,

Especially to children, the elderly, the infirm and the recently bereaved,

Let's also be really kind to widows, to the orphans amongst us and the disabled too.

To our mothers, fathers, friends, relatives and even strangers!!!

Cos that's what God asks of us if we are to truly follow him...

 

Be kind to everyone,

Because kindness is the precursor of love,

And that's what we are all expected and commanded to do,

We are to love everyone we meet, as we would love ourselves,

So at least let's start with being kind, it costs nothing really, but produces such great gains...

By Christie Nonye Akumabor 05/04/13

The picture above was the inspiration for my poem

Even little chicks are kind to each other