Insight

You don't know who you're speaking to, so speak kindly.

You don't know

What they've had to do to sleep at night or maybe they don't,

To learn to speak again after the unspeakable or maybe they can't;

Don't make it harder for them

You don't know what happened to them yesterday and you don't know what going to happen to them tomorrow

Or in an hour

You could be the last person they ever speak to

So for their sake speak kindly

You don't know who you're talking to and you don't know who is doing the talking.

Maybe somebody once told you be careful talking to strangers because you don't know who you're talking to.

It's because we don't want to get hurt, but when we talk to strangers, could we be the ones doing the hurting?

x number or people are raped

x number are dying right now

The statistics are walking around you 

The numbers are sitting on the seats

Nobody gets letters after their name for surviving what people survive

And the ones who don't survive might leave behind letters you wish you could respond to

Don't wait until it's to late to appreciate

Don't wait until you hear about what happened later.

Create kindness, please, for all our sakes.

#poetry #spokenword #lunarwinds

"If you had known what was happening to me, I know you wouldn't have treated me the way you did. Only a bad person would do that."