Empathy Poems - Poems about Empathy

Empathy

empathy is the joining of one’s soul with the pain of another

I would let him die

I would see him die, rather than saving him.

I don't know what his life could be after he dies, or if he would be saved.

If someone dies, that person is remembered, would be praised for his good deeds, or criticized for words he never meant in that way.

But I will have the thought that he

CAT - ASTROPHIC TRUTH

A brief but deep connection
As we lock eyes across the room
And I have a sense of pain
I feel the saddest surrender
To what life does to you
Over the incessantness of time
I watch as she so slowly settles
Muscles not so lithe in age
But wide eyes still locked with mine
Somehow it is a shared moment
Perhaps a camaraderie that

Disability poem Pl-ease

Don’t see only our disabilit-ease,
Don’t deny us basic facilit-ease,
Don’t ignore our many abilit-ease,
Don’t compound our varied difficult-ease,
Deal head-on with the harsh realit-ease.

You never know what life has in store,
You may fall one day and rise no more,
You may join our ranks, afraid, unsure,
You may write words to plead; implore.

We are not an alien race, 
We

Wilderness

Wilderness 

Moonlight stretches into the clearing,
intangible ...but offering comfort.
She is dying now, pining to be rescued,
her breathing jagged, her endurance spent;
the bullet had lanced her stomach 
therefore prolonging agony.

Behind her lies a zick-zacked trail
of red, splattered death, her own.
She had been born a lone wolf
but now seeks release in moonlight's arms.
A terminal breath, a final

The Spectrum of Empathy

In twilight’s hush, where shadows blend,
Some hearts grow still, their warmth descends.
A mask they wear, so smooth, so bright,
Concealing voids that shun the light.
Their eyes, untroubled by the cost,
See pain, yet feel no pang, no loss.
With measured steps they coldly tread,
Where empathy lies long since dead.

But far across this mortal plane,
Others defy the self’s refrain.
Their

The Empathy Arc

C-aring
H-earts
A-re
R-eally
L-ovely,
E-mbracing
N-eedy,
E-conomically

P-oor,
A-nd
C-rushed
H-umanity,
E-ven
C-ountry's
O-ppressed

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Monocrostic (Birthday of Charlene D. Pacheco)

The Silence of Your Eyes

I’d like to slip behind
the silence of your eyes,
to wander the remembered roads
your footsteps once believed in—
to see what you saw,
to feel the ache of your longing
before the world taught you
what not to reach for—
and to find the child
who once asked why—
and is still waiting
for an answer.

I’d sit where memory
holds its breath in the dark,
listening

Parasitic Perspectives

Humans is what we are because we have a skill given to us
Under a word called metacognition
Maybe that feeling of metacognition gives us the opportunity to trust
Availing our own thoughts, feelings, and actions
Nevertheless, this metacognition becomes slowly solipsistic
Selfish in other words, thinking that we are the only ones
However, we forget like humans always do, that

beauty around

we’re always surrounded by art, i realized this as a child walking through the massachusetts city’s. i remember seeing your everyday buildings with the beautiful moonlight and being in awe- how could we forget something so simple yet beautiful exists all around us? as a teenager i took photographs of buildings- cars and the heavens

Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy

We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.

They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry, not prayer,
but syntax of cells.

Their infants spoke in codons.
Their trees rustled in protein sequences.
Their dead decomposed into algorithms
that rewrote the

Casualty of your Cruelty

Casualty of your cruelty and lack of empathy
Is the beginning of your karma journey
What you tossed into the universe
Comes back full force as blessing or curse

Walking in another's shoes
Feeling for them as you do for you
Empathy a symphony of humanity
Put an end to selfish silver vanity

Casualty of your cruelty just may be
Loved ones you have

What does it cost?

What does it cost to let a soul bloom and grow,
But love and sincerity, my dear fellow?
Like a gentle smile on a passing face,
Wrapping me like a warm embrace.

A soothing hand on my shaking one,
Its warmth still lingers though all is gone.
A shared laugh in the storm we face,
As the gloom fades without a trace.

"You

Until I Rest

I have things to do and places to be,
Burdens to bear and people to please.
I look not at the watch staring back at me,
For I shall be late to the morning tea.
I have so many conversations to make,
And very many promises to break,
I have to be at the graveyards and the cemeteries,
Then put on a

DAILY GRATITUDE EMPATHY

Today I’m grateful for empathy…
because when I look out at the world 
it’s easy for me to see
Family, friendship, love and peace
all begin with empathy,

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