Kindness

A fairy tale in poetic form

Kindness

Once upon a time starts the tale

about a fairy and a giant brown snail

they had met long ago by a stream

when the fairy had been eating ice-cream

Snail asked for a bite

of the cold creamy white

and fairy did say it was ok

“But just the one

‘cause it’s hot in the sun

and then we can go off and play”

But snail went slurp

and ate the whole thing

leaving fairy crying and sad

“You nasty brown snail”

said fairy out loud

“You really are terribly bad”

The big snail laughed at the fairy

and said “I don’t care what you think”

“It’s you who are horrid and nasty

‘cause you haven’t shared your cold drink”

“Why would I do that”

said the fairy

“When I know you’ll sup the whole lot

if you had not eaten all of my ice-cream

I would have shared my drink like a shot”

“It’s because you are nasty and greedy

that you’ll never have any friends

and that means no one to play with

and this is where this friendship ends"

But snail sloped off uncaring

he really wasn’t troubled at all

for he thought such things as friendship

were stupid and not very cool

It was only later that his actions were felt

when he was old and all left alone

nobody ever came visiting

and snail let out a sad groan

“I wish that I had been kinder

to all those in the past that I met

for being nasty and rude to all others

I am now starting to pay off the debt”

So the moral of this story I’ll tell you

it’s to be nice and kind through your life

or the pain that you’ll suffer when older

will hurt more than the cut from a knife

Author's Note

A little moralistic tale about being kind to others, and the consequences when you are not.

Reviews

[Ayushi]

A sweet and nice tale you have depicted. Kindness is of too much importance because at the end we receive only what we had given.
Nicely penned ..