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How Much Have You Hurt?
by Addie Williams & Katie Fairchild → (All Poetry by Addie Williams & Katie Fairchild)
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How much
Have you hurt?
Was yours more than mine
Or Job's?
Or do you know?
No -
Nor do I -
For only we, personally,
Are aware of pain ~
According to our awareness.
So we should not judge
Nor attempt to approximate
The weight ~
As if the worth
Of what we know not
Were validate
Upon our guesstimate.


And so our opinion
As to whether to be compassionate
Or merely sympathetic - somewhat condescending.
God deliver us
From such futile
Insensate deliberation.


Dated 3/4/1983


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 Reviews of "How Much Have You Hurt?"
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on October 16, 2004
powerful!

Reviewed by Robin Labenberg
Reviewed on October 15, 2004
It is my hope that I don't hurt anyone and if I do I hope that I can offer up sincere compassion to them.......

Reviewed by Letitia Blount (Reader)
Reviewed on October 12, 2004
Well done!

Reviewed by Sue Hess
Reviewed on October 12, 2004
no one knows the extent of someone else's pain, you said it very well


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