The Value of a Mind



So many people can be unkind

If they do not understand a mind

So then they trash the character

Because they are really reacting



To other frustrations in their lives

And thus look for others to hide

Their own hurt and pain behind

Frontal attacks they use to unwind



Focusing on another without regard

To the hurt they impart as they scar

The souls of those they can target

Some of these are not at all larger



Than their very own inside deep down

Which hurt so and make them frown

And this face they turn on others

Who then go and run under covers



They need to stop and look at themselves

For their pain is hurting others too well

And diminishing the value of good minds

Who absorb their stings - less than kind



If work is reflected upon and read well

Then pain inflicted deserves not this hell

So assess value carefully before stating

Anything which can be interpreted as hating 



Minds and hearts worn layered upon sleeves

Attached to nerves which sway in the breeze

For goodness abounds in the minds of men

All one needs do is search for it and then



Be supportive of the power and the value

Not say anything which'll be misconstrued

As the surest way to stop the constant flow

Is to cut off the legs under the mind below



Christopher W. Thomas

3:40pm Wed. 12/10/97