A few days ago, I wrote a poem entitled “The Shame Game”. You can find that one here. Today, I have another poem dealing with emotional health, and it is entitled, “Empathy, Empathy”.
Empathy, Empathy
It’s not the same as sympathy.
I understand just what you’re feeling.
“Not sorry for”,
It’s not the willing.

I sit with you.
You sit with me.
It’s empathy.
Now, can’t you see?
Oh, yes I feel just what you feel.
It’s not a matter of the will.
I will not rush your pain at all.
In life we all must feel the fall.
I laugh with you.
You laugh with me.
We cry and cry.
Till tears are free.
Empathy, Empathy
It’s not the same as sympathy.
Bible Verses on Empathy
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Lovely post and even lovelier prose!
Thanks!