Learning Through Listening Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Peace filling empty spaces and voids left by others in
our lives who don't understand us or are not with the
same belief systems as we are.

Listening to people's stories wherever having to go,
finding their histories, giving love and compassion for
their sacrifices and hardships in life.

So many things are learned by listening, there are those
whose loved ones have been murdered, killed in auto acci-
dents, sometimes taking away entire families.

Leaving loved ones still here heartbroken, at a loss, a-
lone and lost in life, a few words of compassion can help
ease their emptiness, validating them in their grief.