Listen

Listen with ears

Or eyes or touch -

Take care of

Defensive darts

That shoot from the hip

Too quick with a whip

Like acrimony.

Listen…

Like there’s an award

For listening

Like the prodigy

Is a listener

Building a hidden

Well of resources

Like there’s enough time

For adaptive minds

To meet in the middle

Of lost connections

Listen to the beautiful

stumbles and flight

To the push and pull of love

That is never perfect.

To the buzz of tension

Where love is free

But can hold the tightest shape

So full

Yet room for more

And more

So complete

Yet needing

Listen in the wrong

Listen in the right

Unlace the tethered pains

Of others and yourself

To wild wonder

And reconciliation

To your beautiful heart

Your body

Your life.