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Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2017-10-22 02:25 AM

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Empathy
By: Nadia Lockheart
10/21/17
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There is beauty beyond ourselves...
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...made of quirks, perceived flaws,
and flash floods...
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...each person you meet...
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...is an aspect of yourself,
screaming for love...
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...humility,
has no substitute...
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...we're all beggars and vagabonds,
in these tight times...
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...but don't you dare be ashamed...
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...to let your tears,
gleam like searchlights...
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When hospital beds,
feel like vacant taxis...

...I want to sit with the broken,
cast loose from the moorings...
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...we're burnt out flames,
yearning for ecstasy...

...making perfume of boot camps...
...searching for empathy...
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Skydiving,
between black holes...
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...burning to inquire,
rather than examine...
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...like attendants,
stationed in airport bathrooms...
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...just wanting to be heard,
in the thick of this famine...
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When hospital beds,
feel like vacant taxis...

...I want to sit with the broken,
cast loose from the moorings...
.
.
...we're burnt out flames,
yearning for ecstasy...

...making perfume of boot camps...
...searching for empathy...
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I want to be the person...
you needed when you needed help...
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...we're striving to be the people...
...we needed when we needed help...
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When hospital beds,
feel like vacant taxis...

...I want to sit with the broken,
cut loose from the moorings...
.
.
...we're burnt out flames,
yearning for ecstasy...

...making perfume of boot camps...
...searching for empathy...
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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
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