Pity says I am strong you are weak

Compassion says life is tough and too often bleak and offers care from a stance that is meek

Pity tosses care without a look or a stare and no one would dare question its harm

While compassion hands from near with a message that is clear, without arrogance or charm

Pity is instant, thoughtless, reactive at best from a people who hold their cards ever closer to the chest.

Compassion is thoughtful, deep and bereft of a fear that giving means maybe there won’t be enough left.

It pulls from a source that is powerful and endless with actions and a life that would happily defend this.

Pity’s actions lie primarily in the mind and then end. There’s a whole tomb of wealth and power to defend. It sees itself as the source and the strength, retained and held by any means or length.

The move from pity to an action that heals means moving toward seeing what it is the spirit reveals. Both within and without on the street and at home. Pity only makes us feel more alone. Pity requires no connection, proximity or touch. Compassion may end the day out playing double Dutch. It doesn’t concern with the most impact through strategy and design. It’s not so concerned with budgets and time.

Both may help, in a moment, help a human in need but compassion sticks around while this whole earth bleeds.

Have pity but show compassion.