{"id":91408,"date":"2012-06-23T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91408\/poem-suicide-kindness\/"},"modified":"2012-06-23T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T02:48:26","slug":"poem-suicide-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91408\/poem-suicide-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Suicide by Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Angel Love’s line was “let kindness be your guiding light.”<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Suicide by Kindness<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

“The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions”<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

“We Have Secured Peace In our Time” – Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, after the Munich Conference with Hitler and Mussolini, 1938. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Attila’s Huns always retreated
\nwhen with kindness they were treated.
\nAdolph’s Nazis became quite docile
\nwhen Poland let them stay awhile.
\nIf you think that I am teasin,’
\njust read on to find the reason.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Let kindness be your guiding light
\nto help you keep the prize in sight.
\nThe prize of course is folks’ good will.
\nCharity to all soon will spill
\nover everything around
\nEach kindly generation’s found
\ngenerosity will prevail
\nat least until you’re seen as frail
\nby those who feel a mighty need
\nto upon your soul’s food feed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Then it comes clear your kindness can
\nlike howling wind on wildfire, fan,
\nconsuming quicker than a flash,
\nleaving naught but smoking ash.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

So be apprised that, like a child,
\nkindness works upon the mild,
\nbut is exploited by the wild
\nand goodness thereby is defiled.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright June 23rd 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Inspired by the seventh line, which is by Angel Love<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. \u00a0Angel Love’s line was “let kindness be your guiding light.” Suicide by Kindness “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” “We Have Secured Peace In our Time” – Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, after the Munich Conference with Hitler and Mussolini, 1938. Attila’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}