Learning How to Listen

it’s an art:
learning how to listen.
it’s one that most folks
do not understand
or have long since
forgotten.

it takes patience:
learning how to listen.
you must be still and silent
in the midst of the storm.
there are no exceptions
to this rule.

there is reward
for learning how to listen:
you can see beyond the sea
and beneath its depths;
within its essence
you are born.