Friday, March 16, 2012

Cruelty and Kindness

(I have absolutely no idea why I am doing this in haiku. Just feel like it, I guess.)

People can be cruel.
It is a known fact, and yet 
I still wonder why.


Is it innate, or
are most people just like that?
I'll never find out. 



Cruelty is pointless.
Yet, one can say that kindness
is pointless as well.


We continue to
say that kindness is better.
That is because of:


The smile on the face
of a homeless person you
give a quarter to.


The "Thank You" you get
from helping a elderly
man across the street.


The tears that drip down
a mother's cheeks when you heal
her sickly child.


So for every
ten cruel people in this world,
there is a kind one.