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Young Senior Elder Member
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,298
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Young Senior Elder Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,298
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Listen...Just Listen
If I ask you to listen, will you?
Listen with your heart, not with logic
Listen with your soul,
Not with indifference
Listen with your feeling,
Not with a story.
If I need hope, don't give me facts.
If I need encouragement,
don't give me advice,
If I need solace,
don't give me platitudes.
If I need to let it out,
don't tune me out.
If I ask you to listen, will you?
Listen with compassion,
not with condemnation
Listen with understanding,
not with argument
Listen with love, not with a clock.
If I ask you to listen, will you?
Make me matter ~ not invisible.
Caress my loneliness
and comfort my pain
Keep my trust and not dishonor it.
I don't need to be right,
but don't make me wrong
I don't need a teacher, a critic,
or a judge
I need freedom to say how I feel
And a friend
who will listen...just listen.
-P.H.Levitt, 1987 SOS Newsletter
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