Empathy

Being empathetic never hurt so much when my friends or family tell me how much they are hurting on the inside.When they say this I just want to grab them and like the a vampire i want to suck that pain out of them and just live with it myself.  I realize that this is a stupid thing to say. But I honestly hate when my friends or family is in such deep pain it makes them suffer for days on end I am with them, I suffer along side them. Because I want so desbrately to cure that pain I wrote a poem about this. The prompt of "a visitor" for today is also kept in mind

The Unwanted Visitor

As the days go by

Pains grow like blossoms from trees

I have seen my friends suffer

Endless painful nights digging into emotional gold mines

Only to come out empty handed

 I have seen good people with good hearts

Torn in half by pains that are as sharp as the prick of the rose

I sit and wonder why I can’t take their pain for myself

I sit and wonder why it has to be the good people who suffer

I want to suffer for my friends and family

                For the good souls that don’t deserve pain

I want be able to swallow their pain

I want to devour their pain

And just absorb it for myself

I wish I could just hold the pain and crush it

Into a tiny thin powder that disintegrates in the wind

So that it could no longer exist in the body

Of my friends

Of my family

Truth is,

No matter what I do

No matter how hard I try

Pain will always be

An unwanted visitor