If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Sadness for us seems supreme,
beyond measure, unsurpassed.
And maybe for us at the time it is
but another time, piled on that,
can feel even greater, larger, more.
But we are a community of people,
an amalgamation, a group.
If we quit the isolation, if we acknowledge
a circle of life, a community,
if we are a part rather than apart,
it’s all bearable for it has been borne.