A poem of the heart, inspired by Secret Garden's 'Poeme'...

Writing
in thankfulness
to the poems of the heart,
on the gratefulness for family,
faithfulness of friends,
the wonder of life,
the beauty of love.

And not of things like
the horrors of war,
or the politics of hate,
oppression and dispossession,
the sadness of violence,
or the sundry madnesses of men
in their dehumanizing cruelty.

Writing in gratefulness
to the glory of peace,
the light of civilization,
the sweetness of civility,
sublime feelings of subtle emotions,
the joys of gentleness,
the hope of humanity.