Empathy

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When family mettles into my business-this is how I feel.

Empathy

Don't tell me you understand
What I am going thru when it's
Obvious by the way you talk and
Treat me that you don't because if
You did, you wouldn't have such
A hard time relating to how I feel-
You see what you want to see.
Looking at my situation thru
Those prejudiced, self-righteous eyes,
You say, I make you cry but no
It is you that always gives me cause
To shed tears even when you are not around.

How many nights did you have to
Wake up in someone else's dream
And did your heart break when you
Found yourself bathing in
The blood of your own child?
When did you lose everything you
Ever cared about just because Life
Wouldn't give you a break or let you
Cut ahead above everyone else?

Look around you-the economy isn't
Getting any better and neither am I!
You have no idea the Hell I had to go
Thru just to survive; It's a wonder that
I managed to keep some of my sanity!
So before you go spouting your philosophical
Garbage about "that's life and it's a cold cruel world"
Try shutting your mouth and looking at things
From my point of view, really everyone plays
Like they have so much sympathy but really
It looks like empathy disguised in pride!
Do you really think you are
Any better in dealing with this
Than I am? If so, I would love
To see you try and laugh when you cry!

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Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

Sali’s Poems (140)

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Empathy 0
No Baby Here 0
Holy Mausoleum 0
Anolis 1
Wrong Way 0
Overturned 0
Twisted 2
Wisdom 1
Me in You 0
Just Honesty 0
No Time 2
Still Waiting 1
I am First 1
Using it All 1
Detached 1
Exchange 1
U.N.C.O.N.D.I
.T.I.O.N.A.L
0
Determination 0
Broken Mirror Part 2 0
Release 0
Sway Away 1
Stuck 1
The Offer 1
When I look 1
Acceptance 2
Defining Myself 0
Letter of Resignation 0
Old Caper 0
Real Men 2
Mirror on My Wall 1
I thought 0
Sweet Dreams 0
The Encourager 0
In this Relationship 1
To Myself 0
Can I do this? 0
Connection 0
Consider Me 1
Profanity 1
These Words 0
Un-Motivated 0
Way-finder 0
Intermission 1
Culmination 0
Re-Vision 0
Ideally Idiotic 0
Letter of Understanding 0
I Will Try 1
Ignorance of One 0
If Love 0
Conformity 0
Strung Out 0
Tribute 0
Originality 0
Sundance 0
Rising Spiritus 0
Evolution of Tears 2
Just Talk 1
Meaning-less Strings 1
Retrieval 1
Heart-less 1
Positivity 2
Beauty within Moments 0
Orphan 1
Purple Heart 1
In Two 0
Insatiable 0
Under the Rainbow 1
In Regards To 0
Daddy's Lullaby 1
Isolation 3
Converted 0
Yesterday Night 0
Raging Eye 0
Whistles in Rime 0
Back of the Line 0
Secret Weapon 1
Dark Woman 2
Dancing Shoes 1
Addiction 0
Easy Street 0
Resigned 1
All I Want~Prayer for Broken Families~ 0
Tidal Waves 1
Ballad of Estoria 1
Edge of NoWhere 1
This Russian Roulette 0
Submission's Prayer 1
Not bothered 0
Unwanted 0
Backwards 0
Puppet Master 0
Myth 1
Don't Be Fooled 0
Blocks 0
Break Thru 0
Truth or Lies? 0
Animation 0
Just Be 0
A Widow's Prayer 2
Mid-Night 0
CRITICS 0
Not There Yet 0
Painful Request 0
The Conclusion 0
Right Now 1
Imaginery People 0
Ever Be 0
Making Love 0
Dead Leaves 0
Hope for me 0
Color Blind 0
In Solitary Confinement 0
The Reconstructio
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Soul Food 0
Wishing for Endless 0
Familiar Places 0
Deep Pressure 1
Identity of Me 0
Giving In To You 0
Borderline 0
And She Said 0
Shattered Glass 0
More than That 0
Letter of Situations 0
Metamorphosis 0
Intimidated 0
Unchanged 0
Contemplation
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OVERLOOKED 1
Closed Eyes 1
In the Silence 1
Inside 1
Departure 1
I Do 0
Purest Bed 0
Eighteen Years 1
To You 0
Simple Words 0
Fantastic Reality 1