Kindly  

Flowers dewed by teardrops
Coldness in blazing sunshine
Clutching hands on handkerchiefs
Sounds of soil against the planks
Laying six feet deep
Goodbye Mother
See you at glory’s dawn
Kindly hands lead me away
To sing my silent dirge

Falling tears on glazed cheeks
Reaching hands across the line
The drone of airplane’s engines
Accompanying almost unheard words
Of sad goodbye
Kindly words soothed hurts
As I turned away from the door
To wail alone under my sheets
Lonely bed hugs on my own

Linger the gloom of added years
Lived too long with too much fears
Of unsolved lives of then and now
All static words unlived unfulfilled
Fleeting thoughts as yet unsaid
To one called dear and beloved
Kindly words do sooth this mind
Comforting assurances of what will be
In life with love filled with laughter

Kindness through touches and words
Indeed they soothe the tired minds.