Villanelle on Kindness

We say thank you
To the lovers that came with exit plans
This cruelty is also a kindness

How sidewalks crave for pedestrians everyday
and so, the violence of walking feet follows
They say thank you

How the moth desires a light bulb
and flies towards its death
This crime is also a kindness

How we are held together by gravity
That leaves us with a little more time to fall apart
For this irony, we say thank you

How Fall takes away the leaves from trees
And we rejoice this nakedness
This robbery too, a kindness

It is in the nature of things to die, disappear, disintegrate
Is not life sweeter in the knowledge of its inevitability?
And so we remember to say thank you
Because ignorance is not always a kindness