An ode to damaged empaths
Each dropped upon their heads
A target for the evil
Of family and friends
They couldn't stand your brightness
Or your looking back at them
Your essence opened up the hidden
To those it would offend
Either targeted or neglected
They never quite knew
Just what the hell to do with you
You went through their education
Force-fed lies for grades
Caught in a world of compromise
You must depart their ways
Religion had something to it
But what they sold you at its core
Was a tyrant on the one end
And a Savior for the poor
Another schizophrenic option
An attempt to fry your brain
Once they place you on their spectrum
Everyone becomes insane
It's the heart that has been broken
And when walking into war
I find it hard to imagine
How it won't be anymore
We've all become the walking wounded
In this battle for our souls
May the empath's path be managed
By the One that makes us whole