Christian

Before you know what kindness really is

You must suffer sorrow of some kind

feel the waves of anguish wash over you.

like tsunami of pain

all this must go so you know

how it feels to be left behind.

Before you learn the magnitude of kindness

you must go where life is hard

and the world is unkind

to really appreciate kindness

Before you know kindness as uniform

you must see suffering

You must experience pain

You must mourn something

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,

only kindness that shows

only kindness that shines through sadness

like a ray of sun through the clouds.