Kindness

A long hard day

Spent on my feet

Thought I’d get myself

A well-deserved treat

Piled my plate high

Queued up to pay

No money in my wallet

What was I to say

I’m sorry, I said

I can’t take the food

My empty stomach rumbled

As I suppose it should

The girl at the counter

Smiled and made my day

When she said, eat it 

And pay me another day

I sat at the table

A tear in my eye

Such a kind act

So hard to come by

*Written to fit this brief: Ok, your assignment this week, should you choose to accept it, is to write a poem about personal kindness of the main character of your poem (could be you, could be fictional) personally performs or sees performed. The character can be the initiator or the recipient or see it happening in front of them. It must be personal and it must happening in the poem.

Please, no poems about how great it is to be kind, that's a given. This Prompt is for writing a poem about personal kindness that is actually going on within the poem by the main character of your poem (you?) or someone around him/her.

Not meeting those two conditions will make your poem ineligible for competition.


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