Kindness

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme for the week is 'Kindness'.  Click here to find out more about the week and about how showing kindness can improve your mental health, especially during the corona virus pandemic. Click here to listen to some stories about kind acts for others, and the importance of also being kind to yourself. Click here for some free Wellbeing Packs from Support to Recovery in Huddersfield.

Now read these 'Kindness' poems. 

Give
Simon Armitage

Of all the public places, dear
to make a scene, I’ve chosen here.

Of all the doorways in the world
to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yours.
I’m on the street, under the stars.

For coppers I can dance or sing.
For silver-swallow swords, eat fire.
For gold-escape from locks and chains.

It’s not as if I’m holding out
for frankincense or myrrh, just change.

You give me tea. That’s big of you.
I’m on my knees. I beg of you.

Kindness

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Writing Prompt: What random acts of kindness have you witnessed during the 'lock-down'? What kindness have you shown to others and to yourself? Write for ten minutes and please share your thoughts below.