Listen to Your Child

When your children tries to talk to you, listen. Or they will forever be silenced.

Listen, or they will never run back to you when they face despair.

Listen, or you shall never hear the songs they sing in their hearts, nor shall you see the tears they shed.

Listen, no matter how old they get, just listen.

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I just write

They tell me to collapse, to cry, to unveil my real feelings.

But I don't.

I just write.

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Alone, amongst a hundered people.

And you find yourself alone, amongst a hundered people.

You find yourself smiling, a smile that rips through your heart deeper the wider it gets.

You find yourself listening, nodding, offering advice, patting someone's back, while all you want to really do is disappear into thin air.

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