A Sonnet on Kindness
This sonnet is for Beverley and Peter and all those giving shelter to refugees. Listen to: A Sonnet on Kindness What shadowed fate or terrors hide, unseen By gentle people driven from their homes? What storming waves break hard upon the hulls, Of those amid the sea's uncharted shoals? The unknown shore may be a hostile shore, Scoured by wild, unreasoned winds of fate That back or veer with careless favour, And absent the loom of Compassion's light. Your kindness offers a welcome landfall For those whose course remains uncertain yet. Your care is the salvor of their dignity, Your shelter, the safe harbour of their hope. What greater gift than life may kindness give? For by your lesson so will others live.