Stories

​Stories
These, these are the days when everyone must choose a side
Politics, religion everything is polarized
These are the days of the us and them, of the me and it
But these aren’t the days for stories
 
Close your eyes, bite your tongue
Imagine what it’s like to be
Someone oh so different from yourself
And listen
Listen to their stories
Because no one can speak until they listen
You don’t know how to speak until you listen
 
Some stories I’ve heard they sear my heart, they burn my ears
Takes all my moral strength to not cover them so I can’t hear
Some stories I’ve heard have made me question all that I believe
This is the power of stories
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Listening has got to be the hardest human action
We all have our own life stories
But if we knew the side of every happening
How would we live our lives differently?
If we all stopped trying oh so hard to yell atop the crowd
I wonder what whispers we would hear…
That make us all want to stop up our ears…
And change a world built from greed and fear
And change our tunes to the sound
Of the stories