She is Empathy
The suffering
The pain
The incessant pain
She feels it deeply
Looking into your eyes
It is as if you have handed it to her
Like a golden thread of Empathy
The sadness she feels
Is real and yet not hers to bear
Not anymore
She feels it though
The pain is sometimes more real
Than life itself
She wants with all of her heart to take it from you
She asks you to rest upon her shoulders
She will comfort you
Come, come to her
Trust her
Know that she will do all she can
Take respite on her bosom
Take respite in your dreams
Take respite in any way that makes it better – for you
She does not judge you
She has lived with the depths of despair in her own way
She can still feel the sadness
Wallowing in her heart there is a special place
She knows it is there for her to keep the thread attached
To you, to the reality of what you are going through
She works at the top of her bounteous beauty
For the bottom of the valley is no place to dwell
She climbs higher only to lift you up
She is attached to the spirit and attached to humanity
Pulled back and forth ripping crevices in her heart
The heart she will fill though with the gold she has been given
She will release you
She will free you from anguish
She will do all that she can with all that she has
Empathy reigns like a sovereign in divinity
Compassion is the reward
Kindness her gift
She has strengthened her human mind with thoughts of the anguish
The pain and the suffering that others go through
The empathy there just to remind her to give unto others that is all she can do
If these words have stirred something ready to move, She Is Powerful — the Empowerment collection on The Path — may be your next step. Written for women who are done playing small.
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