soft

I have to remind myself not to be hardened just because other people aren’t soft.
I have to remind myself to smile in the hallways
I remind myself to say 'Good Morning!" to my mother and father, because I know they'd rather just let me pour my pancake batter into the pan without saying anything at all
I tell my one true love to stop picking flowers for me, because love is about appreciation - not posesion
I say thank you to my teachers for handing me worksheets that I will probably cry over in my bed late at night when all I really want to do is pull off my eyelashes and go to sleep
I will write my lovers notes before I take my bath at night because I know how hard life can be at time. I want them to have a paper that says love on it to grasp in hard times.
I wanna be open to the unthanking
I want to be doe like to the large and scratchy voices who tell me it'd be a whole lot easier to be mean
I touch people with the graced touch of an angel because I know that everyone needs a lot more love than they get.
I stand back and hold doors for bikers, whose once wondering blue eyes are now clouded over with anger and age, and I watch them smile because someone young who wears pink has given them a smile
I let at least three people cut in front of me at the light to get to school, because I know that those people who intentionally cut everyone in line simply just were never taught by anyone that every person is just as important as the other. 
I want to learn to walk softly and sweetly and I want to be the most forgiving person in the world
Because I want to do hard things
I want to be soft in ugly, dry, sad places.