Walk In My Shoes

You can walk in my shoes

Only to get chafed feet

You still won’t know

where I’ve been.

You say you understand,

Yet you start every sentence

With the word “but”.

You sympathize

But it’s harder to

Empathize.

To make me feel better

You minimize my pain,

But the pain becomes sharper.

Sometimes silence

Speaks louder

Than empty words.

So don’t say a word,

Listen,

hear the anguish,

Look in the depth of misery,

Accept that sometimes

Another's torment is

Incomprehensible.