STRANGE KINGDOM
Kindness is a kingdom
Generous and fair
But strange are the people
You find living there. One man is a surgeon
With a heart like steel
Plunging a knife coldly
In those he would heal.
And then there are fathers
Who seem so severe
Meeting out discipline
To those they hold dear.
Others seem as jailors
Keeping patients confined
Safe from the anguish
Of a self-harming mind.
One lady's a gardener
With sharp secateurs
Pruning harshly to reap
The fruit that is hers.
Some women are mothers
Who stand idly by
Allowing their young ones
To grow as they try.
Strange are these people who
Knowingly hurt us
But deep inside is a
Wise, loving purpose.
A wisdom that knows
Though love is the rule
Strangely, sometimes, it's
Kind to be cruel. Just like our Father
In heaven above
Who sends fiery trials
Packaged with love.
by Claire Pegg
