She Wore Compassion

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She wore compassion

In all it’s beautiful

Colors

Never pity

Even as she

Grieved that

Which she lost

Beaten and abused

Life took her leg

He took her dignity

And replaced it with

Fear

I could hear the pain

In long distance calls

And late night

I’m’s

Long before

Facebook was

A thing.

I saw her

Wear compassion

In it’s all it’s beauty

And grace

As she stopped

Someone in the grocery

Store

A new amputee,

Trying to figure things

Out

She’d experienced

That pain

Months before.

I saw courage

Even as she cried

Tears of grief