Kind Words

You never know how a few kind words

can turn around someone’s day.

When they feel like they’re in the middle of an ocean with no land in sight,

your kind words can point them

in the right direction.

When life is firing hardships at them like bullets from a gun, your kind words

can form a bullet proof vest

and save their hope.

When their heart has been shattered to pieces,

your kind words can help them

glue the broken bits back together.

To anyone who has ever said a kind word to me,

even if I don’t respond directly,

your words mean so much.

I often feel like a ship that’s getting

too close to the rocky shore,

but all your kind words

have acted as a lighthouse

and steered me back in the right direction.

And I thank you so much for that.