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City of Empaths

November 17, 2018
By Kaz SILVER, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Kaz SILVER, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might dream along with you, and in this way memory, imagination, and language combine to make spirits in the head.
--Tim O'Brien

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Empaths we are, we sense the joys and pains

And fears and sorrows, angers, pleasures clear

As if our own, they course in through our veins

We fuse with those around us who appear


And this, an abstract love we sometimes fear

But always we remember by its end

Why we appreciate and hold it near

The healing through which only it can mend


For our own hearts detest the eager snare

Of feeling of our own, lest we be read

Our quiet, still resolves agree to share

What others suffer quietly instead


And while it frees our minds to sometimes feel,

Assumed from others, pain is not concealed.

© Sergio S., Buckeye, AZ

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