Southern Comfort

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. - Thoreau

Old Man Winter

no one gives a cactus a drink

no one rubs sunscreen on a desert

no one offers summer a fan

or old man winter a coat

but i always run to the doctor

for a sore throat

Author's Note

"The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated." - Thoreau

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Man believes he has rights, hence thinks he has supremacy over all else. Meantime, that or those you mention become less and less acknowledged in society and on this planet. Pete, in six lines you have hit the headlines. Brilliant. (Great vid, too)

[Pete]

a single kindness has the power to change the course of history. can never go wrong with sir mick. thanks for the share em ... :)