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Empathy Explored: Walking in their Shoes Poem

By 19 December 2020August 1st, 2026No Comments1 min read
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Shoes

A reflective poem exploring empathy, imagination and the limits of seeing through another’s eyes.

they say you don’t know
until you’ve walked in their shoes.
i saw a white seagull
through the window of my house,
flying high, through the lattice,
I looked out, then closed my eyes,
flailed my arms & imagined.

when i opened my eyes,
the seagull had disappeared.


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