EMPATHY

EMPATHY by Celine Leduc August 2015

My friend told me

“Feel my pain.”

I ask:

“Why?”

She answers:  

“It is about EMPATHY”

I retort:

“Too much bother.”

She quips:

“Why? Do I not matter?”

I state:

“It is not pleasant!”

She retorts:              

“It is ok to distort?”

I jibe:

“Truth I want to hide.”

She asks:

“Why? Why hide.”

I joke:

““Cause I’m white.”

She banters:

“You whitewash truth.”

I shrug

“Yep, makes me pure “WHITE””

She smiles and gives me a HUG

I smile back and hug her back.

I feel her pain: EMPATHY

She feels my pain: EMPATHY

Thank you Norman Simon for editing