Born an Empath
Sensitive
To killing bugs
To killing animals
To destruction
To loud noise
To criticism
During the decades
Where I appeared
Less sensitive
I used people as gloves
As a bridge between
The Empath and
The world as it is now
While working
Gloves were necessary
I was more confident with gloves
They were a necessary
Extension of me
A bridge between
The Empath and
The world as it is now
In Mid-Life
More solitary
Poetry and computers
Communicate for me
Plants also are a bridge
Between the Empath and
The world as it is now
The last of my
Family and friends
Are my fortress
Shielding the Empath from
The world as it is now
From this fortress
I will paint the future
Into Being
What I feel day by day
Now by Now
-Kelly Voelker
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