A kind note

From an old friend

Is something that

Can take your faithlessness
In all of it
And turn it all
Right on its
***

For when I read

These kind

Planned

Or

Unplanned

Lines of day to day life

I see
They see
The same crippling sea

Of pain and
Poverty

Out there as well as
Inside here

What that means to me
I can't say

But to share on the page

Simply
And plainly

On living
On fighting
On loving and
On losing

Sharing what it means

Just to be