'If You Meant' Poem by Linda Winchell

If you meant to add to this pain I'm feeling,
Then your arrows hit their mark!

If you were aiming not to hit me,
You've missed and struck me in my heart!

If your words were meant to comfort,
You had them scrambled up somehow.

For the pain of everyone of them,
Is still felt deep in me somehow.

One day you too may feel this pain,
And I pray that you do not,
Where someone comes with not comfort bring,
And their meaness makes their mark.

Would it have been so hard for you to say,
'I am sorry for your loss? '
For the kindness another brings,
Is so precious and has not cost.

Maybe next time you'll remember,
Of the damage that you did,
And be kinder then you were to me,
Not the sadness that you did give.