A Way Of Kindness - Jack Crimmins

[Larry Robinson]

A Way Of Kindness


1

What do we learn from each other?
Is there a way of kindness
inherent in the bones?
When we travel to the desert
or the distant copper hills,
we know about solitude,
even when we are with people.
This bird, that one tree,
the trail over there.
We seldom see pronghorn
antelopes, but they exist,
their day is our day.
How can there be
any true separation
between living things
on this earth? Beyond
skin color, before borders,
species after species,
each of us alive in our
myriad of variations.
Say I walk by and tell you,
hey, the winds are off
the ocean, there's a lone
falcon making its cry,
the vision of the world
as a symbol of wholeness
continues, we journey
on and on with each other
in the welcoming afternoon.

2

O sure, there are wars
and conflicts and hatred and
evil, even here in America.
And yet, there are healing songs,
the nights of silence, the mornings
when it rains.

	- Jack Crimmins