<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455820" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Apology for Empathy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shall I apologize for such, my indiscretions? <br>Overwhelmed as I often find myself<br>accomplice to my imperfections<br>Yes, I confess <br>my tendency to leap before I look<br>and nonetheless<br>with indifference<br>some hasty bounds I took<br>I am at times a willing slave <br>to my own emotions (cruel masters, some profess) <br>Jumping to such commands as these gave<br>heedless of consequence recklessness draws thence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I protest, pleading some innocence<br>owing to personal failing <br>or being raised by chance<br>subject to humanity's entrance<br>prone to incense at others’ misfortunate wailing<br>Though advised to place restrain<br>on my affinity for the underling<br>somehow I deign allow empathy free reign<br>over so many an undertaking</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So drag me off to dungeon deep<br>or whip me beyond mercy<br>By this, my sin, may some angels weep<br>my shame displayed that others see<br>Fear not to make, of me, such sample<br>proving where end, for action, meets amend<br>My humiliation might stand as an example</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I would do it all again<br>without hesitating for even a minute<br>I would intervene at another creature’s pain<br>were none save a like remorseful accede<br>the only result, for me, there in it<br>Yea, though discretion, over valor, indeed<br>may prove the better part<br>let it never transpire I choose such need<br>over acting from my heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Havran">Mary Havran</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455820" data-title="Apology for Empathy de Mary Havran" data-description="How shall I apologize for such, my indiscretions? Overwhelmed as I often find myself accomplice to my imperfections Yes, I confess my tendency to leap before I look and nonetheless with indifference some hasty bounds I took I am at times a willi..."></div> </div> </div>

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