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Open Poetry #32

Kindness as Salt

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-05-08 01:37 PM

(This was to respond to an assignment to "look at kindness from a different point of view." Warning...it's a negative angle.)

Kindness

She comes at “kindness”
with a different agenda,
like notches in her belt,
like rungs
on an Olympic ladder.

Playing,
as with a heart,
owning a tin man’s
badge of honor;
she does her deeds
to gain,
not to expend
her wealth of concern,
not to be a stile,
bridging differences
or need,
but to amass stones
to build a castle in the sky.

Oh,
sometimes
her “kindness”
stems out her own need
to trim her
temporal “castle”
of unneeded,
unwanted,
used or useless
items, clutter.
Cast offs
for cast offs,
misfits.

Yet is the
misfit there,
in the mirror?
Is that gilt-edged frame
merely pyrite trim
that glimmers
faded glory
to her story?

©May 8, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2004-05-08 03:54 PM

Ascertaining the intent of motive, is at best, a difficult proposition.

I think we've all come across someone at some time in our lives whose motives were suspect. I enjoyed your take on this, VAS.

(not by works, but by grace...)

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-05-08 06:33 PM

YES, I have seen this. Very good insight. An insight well delivered.

Susan

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