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Kindness Heroic

from Memory Forming Clouds by Mike Legere

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I wrote Kindness Heroic in the months surrounding the death of one of the most important people in my life. We called Silvia May Ring our babysitter, but she became family, and we stayed close throughout the years until her death. The song is about the impact she had on my life, the absence she left behind, and the lifelong struggle of grasping with mortality in pieces, both in bigger dramatic moments, and in the quiet of a long goodbye.

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With kindness, heroic
Carrying the last half a century
You shone a light past what I was too young to see
Traipsing through worn paths
Chartered only in your memory
You cherished those warm days
They brought you back into the comfort of youthful beauty

That old closed off fireplace
Against the faint white sheen in the softly falling air
The new wooden stairs out back
When you stepped out and I heard a loud sound there
It was the first time I saw it
The frailty that robs the light from us
And the longing for old selves
Who’d stray off into the tall grass without a care

With loss comes awareness
The passing that makes now then
You kept a tight lid on the long nights that kept you from them
As our visits got more sparse
Fresh off a flight, and attention began to shift
The light gently scattered on worn paths and silences

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from Memory Forming Clouds, released November 23, 2022
I wrote Kindness Heroic in the months surrounding the death of one of the most important people in my life. We called Silvia May Ring our babysitter, but she became family, and we stayed close throughout the years until her death. The song is about the impact she had on my life, the absence she left behind, and the lifelong struggle of grasping with mortality in pieces, both in bigger dramatic moments, and in the quiet of a long goodbye.

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Mike Legere is a songwriter/producer from Nova Scotia, based out of Toronto Ontario.

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