I spent twenty years being all ears, for a friend who over expressed.

Said, for years, that she knows, I don’t like to expose. So, to save me she over confessed.

She’d usually speak for two hours at least. I hoped she felt heard, unrestrained.

So I let her keep talking, if I spoke, she’d start walking, interrupt, and start talking again.

Even after two break downs, we were still out of bounds. So, 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 soon parted ways, eight years til this day. I had to move on to be healed.

And now know without doubt that to stay and speak out would not change hidden truths now revealed.

Her young voice was repressed so she over expressed. Was Conservative way more than I knew.

I truly was passive so our chasm was massive. And I’m liberal 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 this difference together, find healing.

But we spent twenty years, me being all ears, with deep needs, we could no longer fathom.

So we had to step back, find perspective we lacked, to see our unbridgeable chasms.