Need
Life’s perpetual race
Knows well the reason
Need must surpass want.
One may not be wanted,
But what if they are needed?
Such is the driving force
For many empaths.
To be abandoned
May not be pejorative,
But to compensate by
Creating a need for your being
Is recognizing compassion as a productive effort
Enabling humanness to dominate.
So often…
It takes but merely one other individual
Who responds to sincerity of purpose
To make a difference in an unappreciated soul.
Empathy for someone else’s pain need not be quantitative,
But, oh so qualitative is its mission.
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I watched as Poland,, particularly, and a couple of other countries like Hungary and Romania, take in Ukrainian refugees without question and provide for them in their own homes. Most of those refugees will return home to their battered country and rebuild, forever grateful for empathetic people who gave them a break from their fear and their flight.
Compare that with Syria where refugees sure to be killed by a mad Syrian president. Who sacrificed their lives crossing the Mediterranean. Many losing all of their wealth if they had any along the way. Over a million are still in refugee camps in Jordan. More in Turkey.
In this country there's a lot of talk and political wrangling, but the people in the streets are growing, and refugees are being stopped at the border by wall building and hatred from good Americans only one or two generations away were starving immigrants looking for a break and got it.
Ron