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Empathy Is What We Need

Not sympathy; we don’t want anyone to feel sorry for us and our predicaments.

These days, we need to know people have been in our shoes and understand the pain we are going through. So if you haven’t, don’t bother with your unhelpful platitudes. You will not be thanked but, instead, admonished for not empathising based on your experience of previously being in the sufferer’s position.

Today’s poem was inspired by Tim Maudlin’s heartwarming story about empathy.

Pay Attention: Simply Show You Care

Empathy, easy as a simple touch

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Empathy sympathy

Folks bridle at one

Welcome the other

No desire to be fixed

Two ears to listen

Murmurs emote, love

No belittled help fits

Provocative barbs

Enflame, irritate

Mistaken sympathy

Forms rifts and ravines

Splits opinions, sisters

Anger simmers and boils

Wreaks rents in respect.

Leaves parties divided

Thanks for reading.

Poetry By Karen Madej

Write what makes you feel raw emotion.

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