pity has run its course

Poems

Mar 19

i, moved by pity

wanting to help

but dashed again into reality

of her odd world of causes

for which she is inadequate

but sees herself as lone

person of empathy

parading her good

if ineffective deeds

while seeing not the cost

to those moved to help her

i fear pity has run its course

and is giving way to disgust

self-aggrandizementdisgust

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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