I know the difference
between cooperatively intended sympathy
and solidarity of empathy
more easily articulated
by identifying sympathy’s antithesis
as dissociation.

Sympathetic feelings
may be captured by:

Twinkle twinkle
little star
how I wonder what you are
from afar

As co-empathic compassion by:

Twinkle twinkle
big bright star
now I see just who we are,
new enlightening depths
mutually ajar.

Like the difference
between pornography
and regenerative
sexual ecology,

Asking for a thesaurus
for synonym wealthy choices
does not help
if my standard of healthy success
hopes to spin and weave
a co-arising dipolar chorus

Lyricizing analogies between theoretical God
and experiential Love
inviting our polyphonic
evolving metaphoric
spirit sympathetic
for EarthTribe’s polypathic
healing reeling
revolving metamorphic
wealthy rocking
nature co-empathetic

Enough to know the difference
between cooperatively intended sympathy
and solidarity of empathy
more fluidly articulate
separating sympathy’s antithesis
as silent
and neglected disassociations.