Other People's Pain

The buzzing of flies on near-dead eyes

Trails of tears and the tremors of fear

The bile-like bitterness of other people's lives

makes my stomach twist but my tongue won't stop

Snap a photo

Scratch a note

I'll catalogue your agony 

More than a lifetime of pain

buried in my brain

so I can show them but a glimpse

Moments of misery immortalized

Your brother's gruesome murder

   a footnote in an article

Your baby's starving shrieks

   ambient noise in a film

Other people's pain

I drink it up and bury it inside

so deep and dark even the bats can't see

until those long nights alone

when I try to sleep

tepid tears wet my eyes 

   and an empty heart wonders why

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Other people, s pains can be a,reflection of ours in Hardware times. We can relate to them. An excellent one....:).....