empathy

is this your gift too?

then you understand that certain blessings cuts both ways
and perhaps you too can glimpse past the things left unsaid
and perhaps the moments of silence were because you understand

listen...

tears for another's loss, and pain when another hurts.
i might not be the one to bring you,
but i'll be there to listen.

keep much inside, times i stare at the sky and wait for the stars to wink
they know my thoughts, the stars,
the turmoil, things i may never get to say.

see the pathways ahead, the days, the years?
call me cowardly, unable to initiate a path, fearful to make a resolution,
but this i know: how to walk a road with a friend

i think....

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Plucking of the Star
i'm sorry, shadow, the star wouldn't come to see you
"but dreams," he said, in a tiny voice,
"is where i'll be to meet you."