Compassion
by Miller Williams, from The Ways We Touch: Poems
Have compassion for everyone you meet
even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,
bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone.
[Photograph by Gordon Parks.]
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