Kindness (Mindlovemisery prompt 36 Virtue)

Kindness

Thin skinned-

in your storm

Pelted by words

stone heavy

Hoping you don’t see

the damage

I cover the wounds

they're easy to hide

from your eyes.

A smile wipes away

your anger, yet mine

stirs in a disquieted soul,

 wishing for a thicker armor

 but who would that be

 mirrored in such a cold reflection?

Not me,

and so I bleed.

Stories (for deverse, Hearth, Home and Common Speech)

  Stories

 I would love to hear-

 The rawness

 of your hurt, why you

 strive to rise above

 human pain and how

 the struggle taught you

 to mourn and feel

 compassion for even

 the coldest stranger.

  Tell me your story

  I will tell you mine.

  We will invent

  happy endings and look back

  without regret.

  For life is a great teacher

  its purpose, to make us

  one with our heaven

  where we will one day rest,

  breathing in gentle living,

  forsaking pain for pleasure,

  its lesson burned in our brow

Moments (for deverse 12/10/13)

Time-

Strange

how you follow me.

Memories

I often reach for, so I can feel

all those things which make up

my life.

All those moments

I knew would become

memories before I could

catch my breath.

This will not be a year

I will mourn, I did not

wear it well but as a new

beginning will soon arrive,

I will cast aside this heaviness

and embrace all I do not know.

Running

 What do you run from?

 Heart hidden in the shadow

 of years-

 Masquerading

 time worn worries

 in your bones-

 How you feared

 they would break

  and you would no longer

  feel the sun take the

  chill of loneliness from

  your aching arms.