Love Poem: A Constanza of Empathy
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Written by: David Smalling

A Constanza of Empathy

Immobile in the merging crowd
     The endless shuffle of their feet
     Of empty souls keeping the beat

She wears her silence like a shroud
     With palms interogating eyes
     To love the vision we despise

Bracing the omen of dark cloud
     Harbinger of what we become
     She portrays the world in her sum

She lives by mercy, hope allowed
     For this is but a broken earth
     And time is reaping all life's mirth.

And for her sermon I'm bowed
      Perhaps our laws shall soon be kind
      And love makes us brave but not blind