cruel shoes 12/23/18

Cruelty has the clarity of kindness’s intentionality 

and yet completely withdrawn from usage. 

cruelty knows of the tenants of kindness 

and abuses them in measured degrees. 

cruelty has all of the means available of kindness 

as if strings on a harp in hand 

but plays them wickedly 

as if disruption intended. 

cruelty has the same stance as kindness 

but abuses that position 

from a claim of isolation 

in launching their malice. 

cruelty has all of the instruments 

for the sympathy of kindness to play 

but selects to orchestrate distance, 

humiliation and rebuke.

as if to dance with cruel shoes  

on a reality stage with others . . .