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