If you can’t summon patience, perhaps offer kindness
A welcoming smile that disarms stranger’s shyness
It takes but a moment to hold open a door
Pay a bit more attention to things you’ve ignored
The elderly neighbour whose walk needs a shovel
An arm at a crosswalk for those who might struggle
Donate time or money to charitable venture
The ones that take in those in need when they enter
To find bit of shelter, or hot meal might suffice
They run on a budget that’s thin as sheet ice
Perhaps there is friend that has fallen in favour
A breach overcome by the smallest of labour
Amazed how the healing of long-dragging rift
Brings lightness in spirit, relief is the gift
This time of the year is for many such things
A helping cure free of conditions and strings
As we try to replenish much more than we take
And revel in rapture from joy that we make!
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