Some benefits of being are absorbed at birth,
with the milk of human kindness;
some soaked up from the heat of the sun,
the nurture of cool rain, the tickle of grass
between toes, the learnt love of life.
Sometimes sorrow, loss and pain,
envy or greed, upset our ways of being.
In moments of crisis, in the depth of darkness,
think on the blessing of human kindness –
it is greater than all other things, it endures.