Preface
Yesterday, after over two months of conflicts and explosions, a member of my community made the decision to leave the community. This person suffers from deregulation, an inability to see and connect to their empathy for others. There are fond and not fond memories as all of the community tried as they might to assist this person see themselves and the dilemma, and all of us talked and mourned together this afternoon.
Here is the poem I wrote and read to be with my grief AND to celebrate the inevitable need for this shift.
Dearest One
I know you decided you gotta go,
and this one thing I want you to know,
I'm really gonna miss you when you go.
Not all plants can co-exist.
There is no guilt or condemnation in any of this,
as they cannot be thrust together and also survive.
Creating the environment for self empathy to blossom in others
is possible, sometimes,
but it is often only in the most highly skilled therapeutic environment
that the brain and the human mend itself and rebuild the undeveloped pathways.
Blessings to you, dear friend.
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