Age of Empathy
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Age of Empathy

Lifting the Yoke

A poem on releasing burdens

my limbs and soul heavy with burdens
burdens that need to be lifted off my shoulders
but there is fear
because no matter how heavy
there is comfort in the familiar
my body and soul crushed under the weight

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