Tag: compassion

Via Negativa

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I try responding
  To negativity
     By facing this rage,
       Sadness, misery, and
     Acting against it with
  Compassion and love.
For water is what cools
Fire.

Crushed Compassion

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Huddled upon the floor
Sobbing and bleeding,
Raging flesh’s brutality
Crushes another. Yet
That is not enough. No.

We demand to know
Why this overwhelming force
Was courted, sought. Insanity.
Compassion, perhaps,
Died. Revive it I shall.