"Feeling" the World

The art and purity of empathy resides in the will to feel others. Not only do we look for an answer to their problems we purposely let ourselves feel their emotions to do so. Many say only certain people are "gifted" with such intese emotional abilities. But I feel everyone can acheive a status of an empath. Open yourself to people and become vulnerable. In turn they will open up to you and the road to healing can begin.

Empath's Touch

Leaving your tears

In the tissue on the

Floor.

No one hears

Your pleas for

Some sense of sanity.

Adapting to the

Emotions of everyone

But your own.

Not the way

It was

Meant to be?

Sure it was.

Gift by day,

Horror by night.

Living a life

Without compensation,

And dealing with

Each moment

As it comes.

You are not alone.

---Justin Beebe