Compassion

In a world where hearts are hardened
From the brine of stormy seas
Pounding with relentless fury,
Battered by the broad debris.
Hard to deal with sympathy
And feel the plight that others know
When every turn tends to confirm
We’re drowning in the undertow.

Praying for epiphany or
Maybe some grand miracle
Where we might be a giving tree
And feel magnanimous and full.
Even with the smallest gesture:
(Kinder discourse, simple smiles)
New directions break horizons
Stretching on for miles and miles.

Choirs of angels beckoning with
Softness purified by light from
Somewhere far beyond the spectrum
Known to ethnologic sight.
Sweet compassion, mercy forward,
Filled with tender clemency,
Feathered with the grace of kindness,
Underscored with empathy.

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