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the ones that wound</p><p id="2a07">With hugs, with tea, with coffee and cakes in our hands,</p><p id="0006">flowers, trying to pick up the pieces Some fill themselves with it</p><p id="868b">It is their badge it is a t-shirt Kindness is a brand, caring is a trademark</p><p id="f9ea">But others, but me, I know it is not on the market Empathy is effort towards selflessness in understanding</p><p id="023c">It is warmth that can almost burn you alive</p><p id="b609">It is a migraine after a day of nurturing and attention to the details of others</p><p id="2f38">It is easy, it is easy, I promise, don’t listen to me,</p><p id="4c58">We need you to have it, we need everyone to have it</p><p id="4f51">Then maybe, just maybe, it would be easier for us all</p><p id="31d7"><b><i>Jenny Justice </i></b><i>is a <a href="https://link.medium.com/54FKW36WPX">mom</a>, <a href="https://link.medium.com/qepG742WPX">Sociology</a> instructor, and writer. You can follow her on <a href="https://medium.com/@jennyjustice">Medium</a> and at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jennyjusticewriter/">Jenny Justice, Writer</a>. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Parenting, Reading, Education, Books, Racism, Feminism and Climate Change, so far.</i></p><div id="5ccd" class="link-block"> <a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/same-side-of-the-booth-5f728f1eadd5"> <div> <div> <h2>Same Side of the Booth</h2>

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Empathy

A poem inspired by Anna Rozwadowska, by life, by me

Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash

We are always on empty, Massaging

spirits and feet, rushing to aid

Who comforts the empathetic ones after our hearts bleed out

We bring tea, We bring a listening ear,

We are hurt by the news We are hurt by the hurt

Empathy is vital, empathy is work

It brings connection, it brings pain

Janus Faced — there’s two, they’re sharp but necessary

For human survival at this time Now, right now

If we don’t care about something, if we don’t care about each other

It’s done, it’s gone, it’s over We are melting already

We are over extended Our energies and our stay

Drained and weak The faces of the selfish

the faces of the careless the faces of the greedy ones

Run this And we run around

Tending to the wounded Trying to get through to the ones that wound

With hugs, with tea, with coffee and cakes in our hands,

flowers, trying to pick up the pieces Some fill themselves with it

It is their badge it is a t-shirt Kindness is a brand, caring is a trademark

But others, but me, I know it is not on the market Empathy is effort towards selflessness in understanding

It is warmth that can almost burn you alive

It is a migraine after a day of nurturing and attention to the details of others

It is easy, it is easy, I promise, don’t listen to me,

We need you to have it, we need everyone to have it

Then maybe, just maybe, it would be easier for us all

Jenny Justice is a mom, Sociology instructor, and writer. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Parenting, Reading, Education, Books, Racism, Feminism and Climate Change, so far.

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