empathy's not choice, it's forced perception wide emotional states cannot stay outside the signals flood, contagion takes its hold a hundred minds screaming, uncontrolled withdrawal follows, necessity, not vice solitude becomes the only sacrifice misunderstood as cold, detached, withdrawn but it's survival till the breaking dawn the dual extremes tear the psyche apart empathy and fatigue consume the heart creative insight, anticipatory dread sensory richness fills you up with lead
