Compassion As Tragedy Poem by David Welch

It seems to be a widespread trend these days,
let's have ‘compassion, ' countless people say,
your empathy and feeling should rule all,
"No one should suffer, " is the endless call.
A child's view of how the world should work,
ignores how feeling ‘nice' can break and hurt,
forgetting what adults can plainly see:
excess compassion leads to tragedy.

You see it in families of the addict,
thinking that their love alone does the trick,
covering for souls now truly possessed
with something that will alone can't resist,
how much pain will the addict's actions cause?
How much will the family excuse the lost?
Excuse the madness the high person brings,
chaos of actions they're not expecting,
violent mood swings, things stolen and sold,
accidents and attacks, bodies left cold.
Compassion was what made they stay their hand
as they watched loved ones grow ever more damned,
and when that compassion was all in vain
that compassion becomes source of their pain,
When a cooler min might predict this fate,
compassion stays us, until it's too late.

You see it in youths who "love everyone, "
set out with ideals quite utopian,
believing mankind can all get along,
that compassion can fix all that is wrong.
Then you see online some girl, twenty-three,
going abroad to "see humanity, "
is found in a ditch, now murdered and raped,
by people we all know nurse ancient hates,
all because she thought, "If I show them love
that will make it right, that will be enough."
You see it more when they somehow survive,
come back looking broken and traumatized,
cry, "I don't get it, I don't understand!
I stood in solidarity with that man!
I love all the people, their struggles and plight! "
And her abusers just laugh at the sight,
seeing that compassion has blinded her
to the darker sides of human nature.

You see it when people talk about ‘trans, '
those who enable, and act like its fans,
they feel bad for people lost and confused,
want to take action, have something to do.
Then mutilation is pitched as a fix,
compassions makes them go along with it,
thinking it must happen, to "save their life, "
regardless of the fact their brain ain't right.
Cheerlead operations that ruin health
(Give immoral doctors a stream of wealth) ,
but does this cutting drop suicide rates?
No, it does not, most are still doomed by fate.
Compassion pushed changes they can't reverse,
that's reality, and it's quite perverse.

You see it when folks speak of ‘the oppressed, '
determined to make sure "It's all redressed, "
if you're ever suffered you need compassion,
no matter the evils you yourself have done,
so criminals who go riot and steal
deserve compassion, their "struggle is real, "
get let out early, or don't face arrest…
then repeat their sins in greater excess.
And terrorists who target innocents
on purpose to see their message is sent,
get defended by ‘compassionate' types,
who feel they're oppressed, the their actions right.
Eve when infants they decapitate
the compassionate cry, "Violence is hate!
Do not strike back, that will just make it worse, "
ignoring the people they put in the earth.
Terrorists know this, make people their shields,
for them to die so the ‘compassionate' squeal,
use that compassion to preserve their lives
when by right their evils means they should die.

Does this mean that all compassion is wrong?
Of course not, some degree always belongs,
but too much is as bad as to little,
like many things we should aim for middle,
not think that it can solve any crisis,
human nature just does not allow this,
for all the good that compassions brings me,
to use nothing else just brings tragedy.