Nothing tops honest conversation
straight from the heart
about things that matter.
How long has it been?
How often does it come to pass?
Carl Jung said,
"The only thing wrong with people
is that they have no one to listen to their story."
And how it impacted them,
and who they are because of it,
and who they might have been
if they had had someone to talk to
all the way along the way.
Who could ask the right questions,
and listen with understanding
and compassion.
And nearly half the country reveres
Donald Trump as the way to do it.
We are dying here for someone
to listen to us,
and we get Donald Trump.
Never could there be a wider gap
than need and response to need.
Or more appropriate the prayer,
"Save us, O God, from those who would save us!"
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