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If there were nothing in the mourning
we could not have at peace
then I’d agree

as it is
I think
compassion only grows in grief
compassion only learns another’s name
suffering.

“What about a world with no suffering? Is that not the place compassion too compels us toward? Is it, therefore, no holy aim?”
I’ll answer.
Once compassion finds
compassion’s aiming end — it obliterates
& all its excess energy imparts
itself to life
and living it.