Message to Young Travelers

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If I had one message

for you young travelers out there,

it would be this:

Soften your hearts.

Lay down your guardedness,

your judgment,

your I-I-I,

and your they-they-they.

Think of those others:

their feelings,

their perspective,

the journeys they have made,

all they have endured.

Kindness draws them close;

disdain keeps them away.

It sounds easy,

but you have to know

it's happening,

those fences you erected,

that keep them out.

Choose to be peaceful -

let your issues and pricklyness

fly away

like dandelion puffs

 on the spring breeze.

Open the windows

of your shuttered hearts,

let the others in.

Be joyful.