Poem 1: Where Has Kindness Gone?

A poem for the modern soul

"Innate in us, it once ran deep...

A tender urge, a vow to keep.

To help to heal, to understand, 

To offer grace, to lend a helping hand.

We used to feel the silent cries,

The pleading in a stranger's eyes.

To lift the weary, ease the pain,

And walk with others through their rain.

But something shifted in the air,

A world that moves too fast to care.

Our hearts now gourded, eyes turned cold, 

Less stories shared, more truths untold,.

We scroll, we rush, we chase, we hide ...

The light of love dimmed deep inside.

Trust replaced by weary eyes,

And kindness lost in alibis.

No one to blame, yet all involved,

As life's new puzzle stays unsolved. 

A global village, yet so alone,

Connected, yet so far from home.

And still...

A whispers stirs within the soul,

A memory of when we were whole.

Kindness waits- not gone--just still,

A quiet voice, a gentle will.

So pause awhile, and let it rise,

In simple acts, in softened eyes.

A smile, a word,  a hand outstretched... 

The world is aching to be touched.

Kindness, come back-- will make you stay,

One heart, one choice, one step each day.

For buried deep in every one,

Is love enough to start a sun.

✒️The Listening Pen - "reflecting grace, one word at a time"

thanks to these photos #susan-lu4esm and #abdulrashid000 @pixabay