Deigning to
say hello,
to nod,
to smile just because.
Because I don’t know you
and you don’t know me.
Wrong this is, for we do know
each other as fellow humans
deserving of kindness.
It may be a day when only
my smile and nod
is the only kindness in a bleak day.
It is a kindness
to say hello,
to smile just because.
“It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because
it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.”
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
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