Feeling how life cracks my heart wide open
How tenderness from others ripples through my body
How the sharing of a loss is a rapid dive into empathy
How the shedding of tears perceived, rivers down my face
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Taking it all in without making it all about me in the feelings
Empathy is like that in how it gathers from one heart to another
Holding sacred those moments of unexpected connection
Heart to heart weaving light between us in the allowance of
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Showing ourselves in all our vulnerability naked
With no explanation, no need to know the why
It has always been known from the rawness of life
Exposed, Witnessed, fully seen in silent understanding
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Jeanne adwani. @copyright
