Metamorphosis Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Can one understand the degree
Of pain borne by another?
Unless one becomes the other,
It is not possible.

Can one enter into another?
Since the days of the Spirit
Entering the gadarene swine
It is not possible.

Can research make us feel
What the animals or other
Creatures ‘think’?
It is not possible.

Can we read the symptoms
And arrive at a judgement?
Despite scope for getting deceived,
That is possible.