Lost in Empathy

in the winter it got colder
but the summers remained dark
feelings sometimes left my body
but the memories weren't far

with suppression of my trauma
there was always more to come
I began to feel others' pain
but to my own became numbed

fastened myself to the nearest person
empathize a vision of life
of who I am, what I'm worth
and what exists inside

in this cocoon I hid away
for a great portion of my life
until perturbations of existential natures
gripped me by surprise

I heard a voice screaming out
reached to pull them in
now for better or worse, hear I stand
holding this strangers hand

Author's Note

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Reviews

[John Prophet]

Very nice. Very sophisticated sentiment!