LJ Idol Mini Season Week 1: Trust Everyone But Cut the Cards

[eeyore_grrl]

           trust everyone
         (but cut the cards)


i could walk through life with no trust
	second guessing every smile
			     every gift
			     every kind hello
i could walk through life finding fault in every raindrop
	or
	     i could believe in the goodness in your heart
						her smile
						his handshake
i could open my arms
			wide
		reaching for the humanity within
i could watch the sky for rainbows
		for the promise of the sun’s return

i choose to trust in your embrace
	in the words of love and friendship
i choose to smile at strangers as i walk the streets
		hoping to find reciprocity
		hoping that smiles breed smiles
			that kindness is paid forward
				that love wins

believe in goodness
	foster the tiny embers of that fire

join me in this holy quest 
	in this fostering of the souls that make humanity
	show our children that not everyone is to be feared
			that we have smiles to share
			that we are good


(but lock your doors at night)

Comments

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

Do you not lock your doors at night or when you are not home? It was meant as a touch of caution.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

As I played the "intent" of your poem over a few times in my mind, after I left the comment, I realized, of course, that was what you were after. And it does work! I read it too literally!

We don't lock our doors here. Closest neighbor is a bear or a mountain lion.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

Careful with the bears. I saw the aftermath of a bear opening the kitchen door of a friend in Colorado. No one was upstairs, but it made a mess!