Empath…
Empath… I ruminate incessantly about this secret I must hide, not knowing what to do because my private world and the mundane would disastrously collide. Very few can understand and even less can relate, I would be considered strange being by all my piers, if it was known, the rarity of my state. Amongst my own in hushed tones it is discussed but more times than not silence is kept as a must, Where can I turn to, who do I trust? Those I have told turn their back me and run. So in silence I keep my plait, some see it as a blessing from the creator or some such yet for others I am insane or cursed, by something unholy touched, this has alienated me from anyone that I could have loved, never honestly being myself or able to open up. In my daily rat race, a facade I maintain, a cool exterior of just another plain Jane yet if I had been born in another time, another era, I would have certainly burned at the stake. I have sought to understand the def