No need to speak

Live loud enough in your heart

and there is no need to speak

                 Mark Nepo

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I like to read

I like to learn

I like to share what I have learned

why?

ideally it is because I think what I have to say

will help the other

this person in front of me

who has come

hurting

in some way deep 

and perhaps unfathomable

even to them

they often know as little about

their inner hurt as I do

but there they are

and too often

I talk

words flowing out of me

why?

who am I talking to really?

why am I talking?

to teach?

to impress?

do i believe that if I do not 

keep putting myself out there

i will be irrelevant?

ignored?

alone?

 

but of course I have i backwards

I need to be porous

and let others pour in

more than I need to pour out

 

I am a healer

as 

I listen

 

as I let others discover themselves

and their hearts

as I let others find their voice

and pour the gifts of their 

journey

their hurt

their discoveries

into my open and soft heart

 

where they may rest

safely