Composed 9/4/17
Description: Inspired by life and today’s Daily Prompt: Educate.
Oh how to help a friend in need?
My empathy seems unfounded and strange
But I feel it
How do I express it?
Words seem repetitive and frivolous
I yearn to act
But I am at a loss about how to proceed
I wish I could know your mind
And act it out silently
So you could know my odd sincerity
Is not robotic but deep
Falling through a pit in my heart
To the stomach
And welling up to the throat and leaking through the eyes
Though I try to swallow
I suppose
I just care
About you about all of
This
And I wish you were aware
That you are not alone
That I am there
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