When someone says
It’s a long story…
It’s probably not that long.
It’s quite likely
they’ve just never had the chance
to fully tell it out – spell it out –
follow its twists and turns
all the way to the sea.
When someone says
No words can describe…
They might be surprised
how much CAN be
hinted at and conjured up by words alone;
how much CAN be
approximated and triangulated by stumbling explanations;
and how much CAN be
released and freed by simply talking.
Tell them
I’m here to hear;
here to listen to anything you have to say,
anything.
And through the swirl
and canal of your ear
their long story
may finally drain
into the great ocean
of history;
and the weighty deep-sea blackness
of all that is indescribable
might just be made
a little less dark
with the glow of truly being heard
and the bioluminescence of truly letting go.
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