Empathy

The path an eternity, 

time had lost its grasp.

Unbearable weight

...incarnate

within intertwined fingers

Had nature no discretion?

twisted.

robbed.

I had seen

but did not understand.
My own weight 
insurmountable

I looked again,

again,

and again

and finally felt
the tears
...suppressed.
concealed.

the weight

resting within those fingers.