Unspeakable Kindness

While flipping through a photo book

They found a yummy page,

A daughter sitting with a mom,

Wracked by disease and age.

The plate of cookies pictured there

Triggered life in old eyes;

The memory from her lost past

Of a childhood surprise.

Without saying another word

Her daughter rose with care

And opened up the cabinets

To see what was in there.

She gathered up the things she’d need

To make the lovely treat.

Then, from a heart filled up with love,

She baked up something sweet.

She laid them out upon the plate

To match those in the book,

Then served them to her mother with

A soft and loving look.

The light came on in those old eyes;

She knew what lay in store.

As she reached for the fresh baked love,

She was a child once more.

An act of kindness from a heart

That remembered the day

When she was young and fresh baked love

Had touched her heart that way.

It was just a little moment

That came and went so fast,

But, though the cookies are long gone,

Such love will always last.