“Kill Them with Kindness”

Befriend your tormentors - don’t be a victim!

throwaway the guilt of wishing them stricken, and instead

Kill them with kindness

Before you know it you may have made a new friend,

perhaps swerving them to your right way of thinking

(as we are almost always right!)

Kill them with Kindness

Pet their dog, make a joke,

laugh at theirs!

Make a batch of muffins [no poison please]

Kill them with kindness!

Have them drowning in your warm fondness, and

smother them with authentic affection -

Stiff frowns turn to beaming smiles,

Once simmering aggression, now a catalyst to

transmute it into bubbling positivity -

You never know, you might soon be hugging it out!

*

What a nasty, sinking feeling to be mean-treated

and to do so in return...

So, when you wanna scream,

when you wanna curse, blame or shout,

there’s no need to cry, or even to pout, instead

Kill them with kindness.

Wrap them up in smiles, gifts and warm laughter, and

compliment them - they might not know what hit ‘em!

Before you can say enemy, you might be embracing, yet

just behind your back you hold your secret memory dagger,

painted in crimson-red for love, so as

not to forget, but to remember to trust -

Kill them with kindness.

-2024

Quick note: A new free verse - finally! 😄 Just some thoughts I’d been having. Had the idea a few weeks back now, but could not get it right. Reworked it a bit and more happy with its flow now. Hope you enjoyed and thanks so much for reading.

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