
I spent twenty years being all ears, for a friend who could not stop expressing.
She kept saying she knows, I don’t like to expose. So she expresses to save me from confessing.
She’d literally speak for two hours at least. I was hoping she’d feel heard, unrestrained.
So I let her keep talking, if I spoke she’d start walking, interrupt, and start talking again.
But after two major break downs and no balance or boundaries. The last one broke through total blindness.
My whole body was burning, my stomach was churning, but, I wanted to leave this with kindness.
So we parted ways eight years to this day. I chose to start healing alone.
And now know without doubt that to stay and speak out would not change deeper truths I was shown.
Her voice was repressed so she over expressed. Was Conservative way more than I knew.
I was truly passive so this chasm was massive. I’m progressive with very strong views.
We were too far apart to bridge from the start, blind to unconscious, concealing.
We thought we would balance, eventually handle our differences and together find healing.
But we spent twenty years, me being all ears, unmet needs, we could no longer fathom.
So we had to step back, find perspective we lacked, to see unbridgeable chasms.




























