A puppeteer feels vibration,
echoing from the puppet
as it reacts to the dictated directions.

Mentoring is no different.

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Claims to being the source of light,
from self-inflated egos,
are felt hardest on other self-inflated egos;

until darkness suffocates all.

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When a dictator makes light of his ugly self,
or self-deprecates, it does not make him less evil,
and certainly not human.

In suffering, normalization is off-limits.

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Sadness has enormous rings
that are forever expanding,
easily shared among the miserable.

Pain is contagious.