"Compassion"
There are so many struggling people
There are so very many dying causes
One Man Thrives, while another Starves
This phenomenon of luck never ceases to amaze me
How One Person can be a glutton and spoiled
While So many others are Being Trodden upon
Trampled On and left in the dust!
Not to mention Loneliness.  Loneliness
is that battle i fight every day, among other battles
Loneliness and the surviving, i keep a roof over our heads
Because my family pays for everything, or else
We would be homeless in this bitter freezing ice storm
I couldn't get hired at any job, no matter how hard i try.
They consider me insane, and won't let me have children
or even marry my husband of seven years.
While some are buying what they want,
the less fortunate are going hungry, without hope
of being fed.  when i am happy, comfortable, i feel guilty
because i know how it feels to be sick, hungry, poor,
cast out of society, alone, needy, and even suicidal.
I am grateful to god that i feel guilt for enjoying even
the slightest glossy fashion magazine or luxurious meal
because i know what it feels like to go without and be poor
and i am poor, and i dont have a scurity for my future
but i married for love, and i do not regret this
in any way.  It's the thing we feel,---Compassion.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.