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Teardrops are the Heart's Traces ...

.        ***Tear in the eye

     wound in the heart***

 

   Teardrops ... that drip

       from these eyes

  shall never be hidden

No mask of humiliation

          shall cloak

   an empathetic soul

 

Tears fall without shame ...

 

   Cleansing tears wept

       of undisguised

   merciful surrender,

  purging the essence

    of mending heart;

         shamelessly

       pouring forth,

            unsifted 

     grain and chaff

     together as one

   to willingly exhale

compassionate breathe ―

     into a sympathy

  impoverished  world

 

      Being mindful ―

      never wanting

   misspoken words

         to further

     another’s pain

      when there is

   an unwillingness

to unveil the very core,

the wisdom of silence

             reveals

 

Lean into imperfection's blossoms …

 

    Embrace the light

     from disregarded

           tears shed,

   releasing the traces

   of the spirit of love

      within the soul

 

         Blessed be

     the empathetic

         almsgiver

consoling with love

       without pity

       Giving love

        is to share

    unconditionally

with eternal purpose;

      flooding forth

   a flow of empathy

         onto a love

     deprived world …

 

       Love more ~

 

 

                                                                Harlon Rivers

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Written by
harlon-rivers
M / Edge of the woods
Published
Jan 21, 2018
Lines·Words
55·153
Notes

Notes: I have come to understand over these years as a creative contributor to HePo, that there are many among us here at Hello Poetry who silently suffer; there are many all over this earth who suffer in silence.. This earth is NOT HELL ― if we are not part of the solution, we are a part of the problem ― Please ! LOVE MORE !

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#commiserate#sympathize#havecompassion#empathize#console#love
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