In Search of Good People

Kindness reverses bad influences

Past broken paths

Whenever you feel like going downhill

Slow down and look around

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It can be a slight, barely visible gesture

A smile, a child’s or a dog’s activity

If you can’t find the obvious

Look for these simple things

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Around you

And they will double their strength to fight

That persistent steaming cough

Clutching our soul

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Until there is nothing to breathe

With our own oxygen supplied

So, we have to reach for external ways

To help ourselves

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To hopefully see the light

On a long and winding road

Leading to repentance

For past unwieldy sins

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Trying to create a roundabout

On every supposedly straight lane

Ill-disposed, impractical, inconvenient

Squeezing our head

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Like a lemon

With an acidic influence

Jumping in hiccups

Thousands of times in one day

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Until there is no more room

Then kindness has the last word

Slicing all the rotten apples with one sword

Empowering, energising, echoing long

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Enough to feel, see, hear, smell, and touch life

In the right places

Until it all happens again

In disgusting disguise guaranteed

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That next time you won’t recognise it

At least kindness is the easiest to spot

When your head is on

In the whirlwind of a hurricane

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Good luck! It will be hard

But it’s always worth a try

To discover new ways

Of just dealing with your own problems

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13 October 2021

revised on 28 August 2022

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