Compassionate thoughts and feelings of emptiness <br />Are almost always expressed in sadness, grief, or distress. <br />But in conflict of life and death there is a pause <br />For life is a common interest, for death there is no cause. <br />In a split second in time life and death must cross <br />And the feelings of sadness, grief, and distress are lost. <br />An important relation is death for life and life for death <br />Since both cannot occupy the same space, one is left. <br />Then brings sadness, grief, and distress for the life that had to end <br />And compassionate thoughts and feelings of emptiness happen for the next life to begin.<br /><br />Jason Summers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/compassionate-thoughts/