Loving Your Neighbor
by Abraham Aondoana
Start with listening.
Not waiting your turn —
listening.
When someone is hard to love,
remember:
stones are heavy
until water keeps showing up.
Forgive once.
Then again.
Then ask God
for the strength
to mean it.
Love is not loud.
It doesn’t need a spotlight.
It shows up early,
stays late,
and leaves the door unlocked.
This is how the world
gets softer —
one brave heart
at a time.
About the Poet
Abraham Aondoana is a writer, poet and novelist. He is a recipient of Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop 2026. His works have been published in Kalahari Review, Prosetrics Magazine, Rough Diamond Poetry, The Cat Poetry Anthology, IHTOV, The Literary Nest, Ink Sweat and Tears (UK), Rogue Agent, Ink in Thirds Magazine, Interwoven Anthology (Renard Press), Writing on the Wall, Alien Buddha, Blasphemous Journal, Rust Belt Review, Speculative Insights and elsewhere.
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