Empathy

Empathy
Skin stretched to limiting degrees
Tear, rip and split
Opened like a zip
Mask by mask
Bit by bit
Ego letting go of its grip
Mind starting to stir and trip
Painfully processing,
Pupa emerging, from silken cocoon
Worthy though - the trauma
As beauty born its crown
Flapped its wings on all good things
Spread its joy throughout the land
Ego left behind
Banished from the mind’s
Virtue in its place
Sublime, bewitching, fascinatingly exquisite,
Metaphorical meme
that beautiful butterfly in the wind.