"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love." ~Philip James Bailey
"Good People," by W.S. Merwin
From the kindness of my parents
I suppose it was that I held
that belief about suffering
imagining that if only
it could come to the attention
of any person with normal
feelings certainly anyone
literate who might have gone
to college they would comprehend
pain when it went on before them
and would do something about it
whenever they saw it happen
in the time of pain the present
they would try to stop the bleeding
for example with their hands
but it escapes their attention
or there by be reasons for it
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