Empathy is pillars

If someone has been hostile to us

We brood on it and repay it to him.

If someone has made us victims

We take it to make others victims.

If someone has been beneficent,

We get no adequate drive to repay it.

If someone has helped us in distress

We don’t go forward to help others.

Sword for sword but not bread for bread;

Such trend grows at the cost of empathy.

Unless parents become role models

And put a check, the pillars will crack.

05.05.2013