The Empty Ones

The empty ones    
People who judge others harshly do so        
to fill the emptiness in their soul        
with words that cut like the bitter pill        
they swallow with their morning coffee        
      
Judging others without understanding        
how utterly stupid and weak they themselves are        
to have to eat the pain they cause others        
just to keep themselves fed        
      
oh empty ones,        
lay down on the cool sweet earth        
spread out your arms and lay flat the hands        
that do no good in this world        
give leave of your poisonous thoughts        
      
feel the vibrato our mother sends out to all her children        
wrap yourself in her brown earth        
and let yourself feel the love from her        
that you are so devoid of in your own life        
      
give in to her song Oh dark heart        
for there is beauty in your vessel        
though you know not where, nor why, nor how        
      
for you have only known the pain        
your forebears gave you          
to fill the void their own emptiness brings about        
      
teaching you their charade dance of life        
that says the fruit of others will sustain you        
though the black winters of your life        
      
for you were born surrounded by the dark webs        
they created for you out of their own ignorance        
wrapping you tightly to hide you        
from a light they have never known        
and therefore you have never known        
      
Take my hand and the hands of the many others        
who so willingly, would lead you down the path        
Of true strength and mightiness, sharing with you        
the secrets of true power        
      
The power in giving without taking        
the power in loving without hurting        
the power in crying without being weak        
and the strength it takes to stand on ones own feet        
without having to crush the bones of another.        
      
True Power is having the ability to take from someone, yet not doing so.      
      
You are not hopeless yet    

I actually wrote this for someone here.