Listen

My highest truth
can burn through all the stories,
the well-meaning, the self-justifying,
sounds like what I think someone
would like to hear
stories

It’s fine if that leaves me
with nothing to say –
others have important truths to tell,
and this can be my time
to listen.

©Wendy Mulhern
August 11, 2020

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