Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Let yourself
Get cozy
With empathy.
Snuggle up
To kindness.
Lean into
Open hearts
And gentle
Minds.
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Get Cozy
empathy
Relocate
Photo: Inbar Asif
Let your mind
Pull up stakes
From its old
Dusty space.
Let your heart
Relocate
To a wider
Warm place.
Open eyes
To new shores.
Plant ideas
Expand more.
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Have Mercy
Photo: Inbar Asif
Have mercy
For those who have not
For those who don’t know how
And weren’t taught.
Have mercy
For your own lost corners
Where the words of others
Might’ve carved a hole
That is yet to get darned
And still exacts a toll.
Have mercy
For your
Need to hope
You’d make your
Spirit
Whole.
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Strut What?
Photo: Dvora Freedman
Give a hand
Put a stop.
Help the weak
To step up.
See beyond
Outward bluff.
For in the race
To strut stuff,
Truth is often
Enough.
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Dance Gingerly
Photo: Inbar Asif
Dance gingerly into the hearts
Of others.
They are the home
Of someone’s soul.
Dance delicately
In the space
That is between
Yourself
And others.
Dance gently ever more
Inside your own.
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Enlightenment
Photo: Yael Yehuda
May you have your eyes wide open
To truths
Your heart had always known
But some wish you’d forget:
Love holds far more power
Than hate;
Light illuminates
What darkness might aggravate;
Empathy is the only real energy
Of making great.
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Voguish
Photo: Narcissus
It may be fashionable to be unkind,
To dismiss civility as weak
And see polite discourse
As reflecting ‘snowflake’ fragility.
One wonders, though,
About the price of bullish ways
On our children
Who are learning
Not what we say
But what we model.
Will they grow to celebrate insult
As denoting power,
And be enthused
By pseudo-charm;
Or will they see
The true resilience of empathy
So hate and war
Can finally be
Disarmed?
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No Vacancy
Deny hate a room
In your heart
Anywhere.
Fill it instead
With soul truths:
The sweet breath
Of infants
Asleep against your chest.
Does not differentiate
Who is worthy of care.
Deny hate a room.
Allow compassion
Instead
To take hold
Everywhere.
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Encircle
Photo: Inbar Asif
How much will it help
If we can
Get ourselves out of our own corners,
Out of righteous
Stiffened chins
For right or wrong?
Maybe round out those
Hardened edges
So we no longer must
Contrast
One side
With another,
Or need to confront
A person’s sigh
With slight or fault.
Can we
Perhaps
Find common ground
In what may be beyond
All argument:
If we rotate
Long enough
Around a circle
We will eventually
See
More than
Our current
Vantage point.
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Time To Launch
Photo: Inbar Asif
Time to launch
Growth spurts of kindness.
Time to set sail
Onto good.
Time to commence
Paths of compassion,
To pitch a better course,
Away from shoals
Of crass and
Greed
Toward a truer way
To heal, succeed, and
Lead.
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