Touch

To be touched kindly and with compassion

Caressed with feeling burdened and yet unbound

To be held and cradled by another

Whom you are loved with and contained

Is alive and living and being light.

How this compares with the horrid and dark

The filthy and selfish touch

That you cannot understand but that it is bad

And is going to take so much from you

Is death and destruction and disaster.

So pray that you can live with a kindly touch

And know that this begins at everyone’s hope.

Mr CatOLick