Hiding in plain sight

“We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.”

― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Sometimes we just talk

We talk because we are nervous

Because we want to impress

We talk because we find it hard to live with silence

And yet the world is full of lessons to be learned

And people who have marvelous things to share

One does not have to be an extrovert to blather on

Sometimes is the first great defense

A great way to hid

Our vulnerability and our fear

I hide behind words

I am good at words

I am not so good at being me

And revealing my true self

I am not conversant with silence

Forgive me O Sacred One

When I talk and do not listen

Forgive me dear friends, when I hide

Behind an avalanche of words

It’s not you

It’s me, really!

Forgive me O Sacred One

And help me to use my ears

After all,

I have two of them.