When Someone Deeply Listens to You
When someone deeply listens to you
it is like holding out a dented can you have had since childhood
and watching it fill up with cold fresh water.
When it balances on the top of the rim
you’re understood.
When it overflows and touches your skin
you are loved.
When someone deeply listens to you
the room where you stay starts a new life
and the place where you wrote your first poem
begins to blows in your mind’s eye.
It’s as if gold has been discovered.
When someone deeply listens to you
your bare feet are on the earth
and the beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
-- John Fox
Essentially asks and answers the question, “what do we need from each other?” -- To be heard.
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at our own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again
the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-- Derek Walcott
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