Poetry Visualized - Empathy Floats

Empathy Floats

Empathy Floats

Lighter than a lifting soul floating in a cool breeze.
Heavier than gravity that draws salty tears to pool,
a genuine aggressive reality, both burden and gift.

Each tear glistening with the sparkle of love,
or the relentless weight of vexation and hatred.
Humanity unmasked, quixotic, erotic, silently loud,
a seething rage, a festering open sore, and an angelic caress.

The ball and chain of suffering, hunger, disaster and war.
The weight of the pain, of compassion for the poor
is heavy upon the shoulders of those who carry the world.
For every funeral dirge there is a wedding dance.

Oh rending heart.
How do you beat and endure being torn so?
This orchestrated chaos, this cacophony of dissonance.
Good and evil press upon the breast, squeezing life...
And you beat upon the spirit to live.

Empathy balloons tethered to heart strings
anxiously floating over pools of tears.
Burst souls plummet to hell dementedly screaming
through buffeted spirits gusting with laughter and fears,
as heavens billows, beckons with soft tugging winds.

Lighter than a lifting soul.
Heavier than gravity.
Both burden and gift.

The gravity of the world is heavy.
Yet we can still dance.
Under its weight.

Gift or burden is a matter of destinies perspective.
Empathy floats.