Kindness and mercy <br />outlast the lesser virtues. <br /> <br />Something in the sap's <br />rising and falling arranges this, <br />knowing the heaviness <br /> <br />of all the rest will be jettisoned <br />when both weigh too much more than <br />the human I Am that passes <br /> <br />almost unnoticed <br />into paradise <br /> <br />when something more than peace <br />between old enemies is lost - <br />a core of surplus <br /> <br />bitter behaviour ripens, with unseen <br />shame, always gaining density; one day <br />it drops from the tree of life <br /> <br />and budding continues, as green <br />and plenteous as new grass.<br /><br />Jacqui Thewless<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/kindness-and-mercy-easter-2013/
