Listen Learn How Other Minds Work Poem by Terence George Craddock

if you refuse to listen
how will you learn
to understand

what other people think
unless you pause
stop to listen

to what other people have to say
how other people say it
try attempt to

understand

how what other people think
learn from what they say
a word to the wise

if you sit quietly listen
to everyone
from

the back of the room
within a half hour
an hour

you will begin to understand
what everyone else in the room thinks
from listening to what they say

or are prepared
to say in crowded
public spaces

private discourse
in small cluster groups
is always more revealing


Terence George Craddock (Shadows Of Light)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock