Kindness

Today is a day of Kindness

A day that I pour a little of the good you poured into me back out. 

hold open a door

give coins to round off a strangers’ dollar to exact change in the grocery line. 

Smile to strangers with sad eyes 

Apologize when I know I’m right. 

Today I find the fortitude to feel in bones that despite everything my life has trained in me

I would rather be kind. 

I walk and appreciate that my legs will hold me, 

That while my body is holding all my grief

It still believes in me. 

When my journey ends my knees will ache,

My insides will run

I’ll collapse in a sleep so deep that

the only thing to wake me will be my husband’s absence from my side. 

I stroll with the sunshine club hoping that we will light the world from darkness.

Not on fire like it deserves

But with the glow of angels showering us in a borealis of gratitude.

We all carry a piece of someone special with us 

as we 

Open cans, shred chicken and turkey, 

Become witches churning chili with oars in giant cauldrons.

Twelve hundred bellies fed because of the goodness passed from your lives to our souls. 

I hope that every last drop of the you that lives in me pours out of my life into sunshine soldiers.

No one will ever need a meal, a smile or a dime

Without you being there to offer it.