Compassion is a bomber jacket - from Steady, Pilgrim

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 3:59PM
Peter Neary-Chaplin in Poems, Spiritual, devotional poetry, men's spirituality, new poems, new writers, new writing, poems for men, poetry for men, poetry for wellbeing, spiritual poems, spiritual poetry, spiritual writing

Compassion is a bomber jacket
worn reversed.
People warm their hands
on fluff
and love you for the softness of the stuff.

Turn your jacket round,
put your own vessel first.

Let cold leather be your skin
then you can fly your plane
way up where air is sliver-thin
and warm yourself,
yourself,
as you guide
your solo mission in.

 

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