by Aloha Jacqueline
❝ You can be free
You can be free
You can
You can be free
Once you realize
That Everyone
Everyone
Is only
They're only
They're only
Meeting their needs
Meeting their needs
It's only
A tragedy
It's only a tragedy because
Because they're only in habits and strategies
They're only doing what they know
And sometimes
And sometimes
We don't know what do
We're scared
We're frightened
We're tired
We long to be safe,
We long to be heard,
We to long to seen,
And we to be loved
It's only that we might
We might not be going about it
In a way where we can
be met, be met
In what we need...
Ohhh
When we don't how we feel,
How can we know what need?
And how can we know what to ask for?
When we don't even know what need?
So attached to the ways
We've been living
So attached to our fears
Ohh
So empathy
So empathy
So empathy
So empathy
It's the only way
If we're tired of doing the same things
Over and over again
And hoping
We're hoping
That this time something might change
But inevitably
Inevitably
It comes around again
Inviting, inviting, inviting
For us to finally feel
To feel, to see, to hear, to know
What is going on
Inside, inside if we understand
And feel empathy for
All that arises
All that is felt
All that wants to be seen.
To be seen
To be held
To be known
And to felt.
We might be able to
We might be able to
We might be able to hear
Someone elses pain
Someone elses fear
Someone else whose stuck
And doeant know what the hell to do
So we stop
We pause
We observe what is here
What is now
Identifying how wr we feel
Connectes to our needa
If they met if they're nit
We can can still feel the beauty
The beauty of being human
We're all so full of needs
And if we master.
And we if we master this
We might be to speak
To speak our needs
To speak our values
To speak what we desire
And hold it lovingly
And holding it lovingly
Regardless of what someone else says
What someones else does
Wht someone else feels
Empathy
Coming back to empathy
We're all hiding
We're all covering
Covering
We've covered
All the feelings and of the needs
Can we unwrap?
Can we unwrap
Patiently?
Patiently
Slowly getting curious
Of our new way.
Improv song by Jacqueline du Plessis
March 2021
Recorded Android phone