Empathy for Dummies

Sam Smith

 

What do you do when you’re told to appreciate something?
How do you handle being told to feel?

Do you take their words and smile back?
Do you show them you care for their opinion without following the advice,

Or do you ignore them and continue on your trail?

Do you explain to them how your feelings work?
Do you turn that stranger on the sidewalk into your therapist?
How many times have you turned therapists into strangers?

 

Do you want to be a basket case,

Or do you want to be the one that doesn’t talk about himself?
Do you smile and turn away,
Or do you frown and cry on the inside?
Does a lack of empathy frighten you,

Or  make you stronger?

 

Are you even human;

are you trying hard enough?
What do you do?
How do you try at nouns?

What gives you empathy?
Who wrote that book;

where can I buy Empathy for Dummies?

Why does silence in the dark

feel as good as ice cream in summer?

Why does school in the morning
feel as good as partying at midnight?
Why is getting drunk and blacking out

as good as sitting in a hot tub at the edge of the east coast?

What does it mean to appreciate a moment,

what does it mean to take a picture and smile when you see it?

What do you do when you’re told to feel?