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Burned fingertips

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Every horror 
Carries a little knife 
That stabs 
     A scalpel of understanding peeling back each layer.
 Empathy can travel only so far 
real searing pain starts from within
 sealing with obsessive omniscience
 any hope of avoidance of hurt
Only those who truly experience
 Can know .
But
what does that mean for the truly empathetic
who feel sick from the smell of singed hair 
 the recoil of a mere witness 
sensing burned fingertips ?
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