Your life, is all you can really know
But what of other lives, other worlds
Take a piece, of the unknown world
Know life in details, the other knows
Walk a mile, in any other’s shoes
Hold to hope, while in deep blues
Drift across blue seas in their boat
Sense the slaughter of a meal goat
Ride their camel across the sands
Run from danger with waving hands
Take a look into stranger places
Feel rain striking all uplifted faces
Face the death of daughter or son
Or face the death of any loved one
Know all the agony and despair
Of a life without hope of breath’s air
Suffer the pain of the torn mind
Feel the want of the unloved kind
Glory in the love of the lost forlorn
Cherish thoughts of the freshly born
Take the mind of the loving divine
Love all, knowing all love is mine
© 2017 Jim Davis
Of course it’s been said “walk a mile in his shoes”. Then you have his shoes and have a head start!