Election Night Kindness

Lean over nearer me
on election night --
let's appoint me the Queen
of the Universe
and you can be
my biggest fan.

Remind me that it matters
to vote
even though no one
ever wins here
except the Queen--
her loyal subjects
constantly falling
on their knees
in gratitude,
weeping for joy.

Kindness rules here
like the sun rises
and the moon
that is just a light
that reflects
all the rays
of the fading
from day into night.

It matters,
when all is lost,
to know that we have
been so much more
than kind.

It takes nothing from the other
to be kind and full of hope.