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Ode to EmpathyEmpathy, your name is as precious as precious
as can be
Your being, as human as human can be
Your heart beats so kindly,
oh so kindly over me
Your thinking senses others, so sensitively within me You
are the connectedness of two inner selves
A connection meshing you and me
An
instinct relating two beings
Like the warmth of mother holding baby Synchronising
the fixation of lover's eyes
Arousing feelings of metamorphosis
Enticing
friend and foe
In tandem with understanding You help beings
reflect each other
In time, in place and in love
I laugh, you laugh, you
cry, I cry
Soothing the dreary toils of life Touching,
embracing, reciprocating
Read like an open book
You change, crystallise
and connect
Them to us, me to you Resonating, crossing
over, merging
Emotional similarities, values and virtues
You overcome adversity
and bring
Comfort, hope and togetherness You emanate kindness
Forging
the unfeeling into feeling
Making the unbearable bearable
Reconciling damned
divided selves No longer bereft, rejected, abandoned
You
piece together our broken hearts
Morphing the feelings of pain into
Sublime
painlessness and joy Dissipating the fears of loneliness
and, hey
We belong, now worthy, now human
The tie that binds all cherished
lives
You are the embodiment of social connectedness If
only, if only the world would resist
Humankind's organised antipathy
And
exterminate the sacrificing of empathy
In the name of narcissism, racism and
materialism Unite to inoculate the world against
The sickness
of human indifference
Proslytise, energise, prioritise
Inject the highest
dose imaginable Into our precious most precious
Unconquerable
power of empathy and
Make us truly worthy of ourselves
Amid a cushion of
mutual consciousness If only, if only the world would
Only
empathise
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