To feel fear in laughter.
To know hate in singing.
To touch anger in a smile.
Despair in a smile.
Hopelessness in a glance.
To feel real pain when someone falls.
Your heart stops at the clash of loud sounds.
Bright lights burn.
Brilliant color stings.
Tears flow on your face; they do on mine.
Your joy is my joy.
Your fear is my fear.
Your hope mine.
Have you felt the thrill in a song?
Have you felt the melting of a heart?
Have you sung with the voices of the forest?
Do you converse with the steady mountains?
Does the sea speak of a better world?
Can you feel the individual's dreams, the group, the city push you into giddy laughter?
Can you feel the loss of one life push you into darkness?
Do the waves of ignorance beat your mind?
Does silence crack your skull?
Being an empath does not give you clairvoyance.
You feel real pain, real pleasure from other people.
But those feelings don't tell you why?
Why are they afraid?
Why are they in love?
Why are they resentful?
Why are they angry?
Other people's emotions, especially for me, anger boils on my skin like acid.
I can see a lie before it's even told.
But a funny thing about being an empath?
You can't see your own fiction.
I had traveled a life, not knowing that the fourth wall of my spiritual existence did not exist.
I did not know my back door was wide open, letting in all the unregulated terrors of the human mind into my spirit.
That open back door swung so broadly that it let in all the fear, the darkness without boundaries.
Until I decided I couldn't take it any longer.
I had to leave.
But as I was going out the door, a voice caught me.
A voice that pierced the real darkness that filled my eyes.
A voice that called me back to the living.
A voice of hope.
It is really late to find out at age 55 that you are an empath.
I've lived again these past 5 years and learned a lot about myself.
It explained a lot of the secret misery I kept.
The secret pain.
But that voice of hope asked me to live again.
To again begin.
And I meekly said I will try once more.
Once more to help heal hearts and minds.
This world can be a better place.
For all of us.
Try to see the world through the heart of another.
You will find you are also in that other person's heart.
They want what you want.
Peace
DFrey
