Wednesday's Woe - Compassion?

Wednesday's Woe

Compassion?

Compassion?

"Get over it" injunctions aimed at me

And my mother's grieving heart ~

Is that your version of empathy 

When my whole world has fallen apart?

Our Lord says, "Bear one another's burdens,"

Yet when you see me with grief burdened down,

Do you reach out to help lift my burden,

Or pile on your judgment and make me drown?

Holidays come, only to spotlight her chair so empty,

Yet, you, my burdens only compound,

Demanding I drive hundreds of miles to your town

And bring my broken heart to your festive party

To play "Merry Holiday" with family

when my Merry...

has been 

buried

in

the 

ground...

Tell me, is this your version of compassion ~

To pound me, when my world is crashing down?

Poem - Compassion? - Angie Bennett Prince, 5/11/2012