It well may be
you can find kindness
anywhere. Still,
there are some places not to go
when you are searching
for someone to be kind to you

(They spit you out!
They don’t give you a chance
to speak for yourself! They speak
to their assumptions about you –
they never see you at all!)

Of course the best way to find kindness
is to be kind.
Then you can find it anywhere –
if not in others
then at least in yourself.
From there it tends to multiply  …

©Wendy Mulhern
July 13, 2022