Porchlight Harmony

Maybe we began as strangers

Living three doors down

Passing one another quietly

On the sidewalks of the town

Then somebody needed groceries Someone's car would never start

Someone brought a bowl of soup And something changed inside our hearts

That's how neighbors become family That's how strangers become friends

One small act of kindness And the distance starts to end

Hold a door Share a table Ask somebody how they've been

That's how neighbors become family

Again and again and again

Know the elder living lonely

Learn the new

child's name

Welcome people who arrived here

From a place

not quite the same

Community is not a building

It's the way we choose to care

It's remembering every person

Needs to know somebody's there

That's how neighbors become family That's how broken fences mend

One small act of kindness Can become a

lifelong friend

(again and again and again)