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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>About This Stuff Called Writing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Upon reading the poem </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">about a childless woman <br>My friend Sol wrote </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I am truly sorry for reading <br>About such a delicate issue </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And she emails </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">“Did you write it because I have offended you and the childless woman? ” </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">“I am truly sorry” </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I e-mail her back; there was no offense, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as it was not really about us <br>The little boy who died a long time ago was not </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>About us, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I was surprised <br>That poem <br>Was not meant to be </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a certain Apathy </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it is not about us <br>it is not us </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">it is about them </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Such is a poem <br>is meant for a </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">certain kind of empathy <br>it is no apathetic <br>it is not about a sickness into death <br>it is not about <br>a 'mind-you-own-business' <br>but it was meant to be </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'we-feel-what- you -all -feel' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>It is empathy <br>it is reincarnation to the bodies <br>Of other people <br>it is going <br>into life <br>into the lives of other people <br>into life <br>into salvation </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a life in those moving fingers of a new born baby <br>the same moving fingers that give you the hint of of life to <br>a hit-and-run victim <br>a while ago comatose </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a life a breath a hush <br>for persons <br>not just people </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(specially for those whom we love much <br>that if they die <br>we want to die <br>with them <br>and we <br>keep saying without them <br>life has no meaning at all) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>And we <br>Become them <br>the childless couple that was not us <br>the hit-and-run-victim that layed long unnamed in the morgue <br>that baby that was blue all over because of a congenital heart defect </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">they were buried <br>and we say we were buried with them </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">we have duties and obligations though <br>as we watch and stand for those who remain here </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">empathy <br>that is empathy </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Every part of them: the nose, the eyes, the brain, the trachea, <br>The butt, the hands, every nerve every vein every corpuscle </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">we become them <br>we join in their mission </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We become the air that they breathe <br>We breathe <br>We penetrate the other completely <br>to </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Every part of them: the nose, the eyes, the brain, the trachea, <br>The butt, the hands, every nerve every vein every corpuscle </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The apology then was wrongly worded <br>And was wrongly sent <br>The dog has waggled its tail <br>To the wrong master <br>the dog has barked to the wrong tree </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Hence I reject the apology </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">because the tragedy and the sorrow are not about us <br>it is them <br>we only become them because </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">we empathize <br>we allow ourselves to be a part of them in the process </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or whatever excuse <br>It was not for us <br>It was for them </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">We are merely the wires <br>Through which <br>The unseen electrons pass <br>an in the process we generate light and power <br>For others <br>For this dark world </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The danger lurks when for lack <br>Of understanding about the mechanics </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Of apathy and its <br>distinction with empathy </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">between us making a living <br>and between them that we try to appease </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">You touch us in careless passion <br>And for lack of understanding about compassion <br>You are shaken <br>Unnecessarily </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And who knows <br>In due time <br>You too shall become <br>Us </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in utter exercise of empathy </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And that would be enough </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=485281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">i know there is something that you did not understand <br>life shall tell in the process <br>and life shall tell you all about it before everything is ended.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a></strong></div>