14/11/2025
Beautiful 😍
A gentle word can shift the day
When hearts are feeling low
It’s proof that hope can start again
With just a small hello
A smile can bloom where storms have been
It costs so little, too
It ripples out through stranger’s hearts
And changes grey to blue
We hurry past each other’s pain -
Forget the simplest graces
But kindness lingers patiently
In calm and friendly faces
It isn’t grand or loud or fierce
It needs not even words
Just gentle nods and listening ears
To tell us we are heard
‘Cause hands outstretched, a door held wide
Can start a brighter chain
Then every spark of kindness
Becomes sunshine through the rain
So let us tend this gentle spark
Though times may rush or race
For kindness grows in quiet acts
And lights the darkest place
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A little poem I wrote for World Kindness Day today. A reminder never to underestimate little acts of kindness. They could turn someone's day around.
Becky Hemsley 2025
Beautiful artwork (entitled 'Compassion') by Laly Mille
