Pathos

Pathos is
That which happens

Suffering — Dukkha —
Fate

Aloneness
Of being

Recognition
Of that which happens

To oneself
And all

Is the only ground
Of compassion
Of sympathy

The bastardisation
Of which

Is empathy
That first assumes
An unshared ground
Between two

And then asks
To bridge the distance
Between two

By feeling and endorsing
The feelings
Of other

Rather than seeing
The reality — fact —
Essence
Of one

That is
Other