Martin D. Buxbaum - Compassion

If everyone were perfect in his body, soul, and mind...
then the folks who had compassion,
would be mighty hard to find.
For each living thing that suffers,
is a challenge to the rest...
It's God's own way of measuring
the kindness in your breast.

Martin D. Buxbaum

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