empathy
Arete
Hope is a candle in a sea of darkness, eagerly awaiting the sun.
Trust is a drop of the purest water, in an ocean full of desert sand.
Loyalty is the assurance of your own two feet, that you will stand.
Love is a bubbling geyser; filling, and rushing to overflowing.
Empathy is a mother's love, from someone that you don't know.
Peace is an ocean of glass-like water, that ripples of war cannot move.
Honesty is a pure wine, with no dregs to ruin the taste.
Empathy [Unrhymed Fiverse: Poem of Five Lines]
Empathy
I feel
Sympathy as well
Once them I see
The poor leading grief-stricken life
"Same Reason"
by Jeph Johnson
When an Empath asks me:
"Why do you care what others think?"
I respond with:
"For the same reasons you care what others feel."
"Demurric Charity"
by Jeph Johnson
She is a seraph by her empathetic feel
Making me believe she's real
The rest of my reality cannot be instated
While her language of angels is enunciated
It takes a miracle for one to appear
More cherubic inside the mirror
But somehow and some way this heavenly being
Has both the Creator and Devil agreeing
Immediate
My attitude, cannot be broken.
Thank you, my angel.
I listen to you,
And try to comprehend.
Sympathy, seems so inadequate.
Empathy , is the best that there is.
The weight of the world is on my shoulders.
I flip it over my back.
Step on its neck.
Spit on its ugly head.
Die monster, die !
Die today !
Die tomorrow !
Die the next day too !
Die !
I listen to you,
And try to comprehend.
Sympathy, seems so inadequate.
Empathy, is the best there is.
My attitude cannot be broken.
My angel, takes me away.
Leaving You Once Again (Original)
Verse 1:
I have witnessed many having to say their final farewells and goodbyes once and for all.
Ships starting to arrive on the dock,
Horns blowing nad tooting within the distance,
To inform passengers
Soon after to abroad the ship.
Anchors dropping into the sea,
To stabilize the boat.
Putting it on balance.
Pre-Chorus:
Such a hefty wound, it carries within one's heart,
Only coming to realize that later on...
Chorus:
Words left unspoken,
Need not be said.
Evidently, our guilt takes control
Controlling our emotions in a split second.
Closing down and narrowing is thse walls
One hsa built as a lifesaver
To ensure they are alive and living.
No risk being lost and isolated at sea.
Verse 2:
A wounded heart so vanished at sea,
Flowing freely across the tranquil ocean waters.
Bridge:
Amid the breeze flowing,
Tides rolling and crashing before us.
2nd Chorus:
Its illumination guided me
To the path I should have chosen and ended up with.
Best believe it:
Sometimes, we all are not necessarily lazy.
More along the lines of discouragement.
Not necessarily smart or intelligent.
Just have our priorities straight and in order.
We are average.
Last-Chorus:
So, in the end, the ocean is turbulent and calm as it can be.
Let loose your wings...
Fly away into the distant skies
Overhead the ocean in our paths
Somehow, we manage to get through it all.
Close our eyes...
Dreaming of flying away...
Spread our wings and fly...away!
Free at last with our wings outsretched.
To Empathize
....
Very sad to watch someone go through pain,
Their tears fall, or their body lame,
Maybe even a severely damaged brain,
Feels so overwhelming, like never ending rain.
The anger rips apart the person we thought we knew,
We see the other side, and it triggers something in us too,
It often starts a churning of a storm within our hearts,
Chewing up and spitting out our yesterdays in parts.
They come to us in humbleness,
We lovingly lend an ear,
But it isn't what is triggered in us
They needed and came to hear.
The precious worth of listening,
Is something to be discovered
To place our feelings on a shelf,
And listen to the pain of another.
It sometimes hurts to hear the weight
Of suffering they've endured,
We can lose sight through our own disdain,
We can't fix the past,
And no one is to blame,
When what they need is empathy,
Don't mix in your own sympathy.
Listen, hold your breath and sigh,
Connect to them,
Don't ask why,
Hold your shoulders up,
Be strong,
The moment will pass,
Even if it seems long.
Most important,
Hold no grudges,
Friends are friends
And never judges.
......
i am you
..........
i am sunrise,
a fog,
a lily pad
floating in
a pond--
--(no frog)--
i am an angel,
dressed in black velvet,
and I only allow the light on my face
when the moon
cannot be seen
at night,
to wimper among the rhythm of
slithering snakes in
the cool night sands,
i am macerated flesh of
a wild animal,
waiting
to dry out after the feasting of
hungry wolves,
i am a feild of daisies,
and you have severed my lifeline
to place me
on
your great-grandmother's hand made
doily for your
pleasure,
i am an onion,
bursting with pungent juices
to make the tears fall from
your eyes like a torrential
downpour
in the worst of droughts,
i am hell fire
to infinity
and
i am waiting for
more,
i am the gleam
of a child's
face on
christmas morning,
and the killer's
grin of
satisfaction,
and i am the untamed
ogre of
grief, the
grim rapist,
that entices
your anger,
a predator
lusting after your
greatest
fears,
i am the regurgitation of man's worst crime,
sin,
sorrow,
fear, hope,
and desire,
that wallow
like poison in the pit of his
belly,
and,
i feel,
things,
too.
11:58 PM 7/7/2013 ©
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Empathetic Eyes
Empathetic eyes,
Sometimes just a guise,
When respect is not there for uniqueness,
Trying to feel what is another's to feel,
Can mean a lack in oneself, and a weakness.
Mindreaders,
Soothsayers,
Brainsleezy,
So cheesy!
Frenzy husslers,
Naivety sifters,
Darkfellows,
Truth twisters.
Open yourself,
Respect what YOU feel,
As humans we all feel our own feelings,
Though another may listen,
And resonate well
Their perception of you, is their own personal hell,
And most often their own subconscious concealings
Copyright 2013