Acknowledgement

It's not who is standing right there but rather the ones that make time for you.

Tell me again

About your grades

What plants are in your garden

Tell me again

About your dreams

What bothers you deep in your soul

You don't seek

My recognition

I don't have to ask

To know how you are

You just tell me

Again and again

Because I will gladly listen

Till my very end

Tell me again

About your dinner

What great novel idea you have

Tell me again

About your troubles

What a chore it is to stop talking

I don't ask

Your thoughts

You tell me without falter

As truth so binds us

Spoken in every word

Sentence after sentence

Deepest concern for your dearest friend

Lifting up every chance

Tell me again

About your past

What shaped your beauty today

Tell me again

About your day

What hopes you have for yourself

We seek out

Shared council

We don't have to ask

What the other is thinking

We just speak our minds

Heart to heart

For our care goes much deeper

Than our spoken words

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

sometimes having someone to listen is the greatest blessing in the world.. when they actually CARE, take the time to understand... to enjoy each other's company... talking about everything.. anything.. nothing.. that is real, true, selfless, friendship.. it is where you have a blast no matter what.. where you look up and you have been on the phone for hours without realizing it.. where you find yourself excited to tell them about things that have happened.. you have expressed this so beautifully here.. well done!

[Wynter Ignatius]

A lot of what I write of late is prompted by my kindred, so I have to admit it is not always under my control, be it my muse or her, but ultimately it is what it is. You captured it exactly as I pulled no punches in what I wrote - these lines are some of our exact conversations given to poetic form.

[sgheath]

Very heartfelt. I applaud you. Well done.

[Wynter Ignatius]

Thank you - I'm mostly off the cuff of late with my works when the novel doesn't take up all my time.

[Rene Salinas]

A bit of a feeling of Oriah Mountain dreamer here to me. I read it a few times and it always told me that in itself already intriguing. See what is so agreeable in this writing is the gesture of selfessness found as if with open ears and open arms in Tell me again. I imagine Dad sitting at the end of the bed telling daughter. Tell me again about all your hopes and dreams. Which will lead then to the realasation that "We seek out council". heart to heart. The enveloping gesture that needs no words.

This is an endearing inspiration. I hope it find its reality.

Thankyou

[Wynter Ignatius]

Thank you also Rene as you hit some wonderful points about this piece - I can't always fix the world around me or around those I love but I can be sure to to let them know I will listen, over and over just to see them smile.