Damaged Empaths

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