First you listen with the fist
made no more for hearing than for caring
but you start from where you are.
You listen with the elbow
only to get by: so, so many people!
Do they all want a piece of you?
You listen with the shoulder
maybe life is a game of rugby
but that may not be quite true.
Then you listen with the ear
wild gibberish in strange tongues
how are you to understand?
You are one cell
of the universal human heart
swept through with overwhelming feeling.
It's hard, but listen with the heart.