When I ask you to listen to me <br />and you start giving me advice, <br />You have not done what I asked. <br />When I ask you to listen to me <br />and you begin to tell me why <br />I shouldn't feel that way, <br />you are trampling on my feelings. <br />When I ask you to listen to me <br />and you feel you have to do something <br />to solve my problem, <br />you have failed me, <br />strange as that may seem. <br />Listen! ! all I ask is that you listen. <br />Don't talk or do-just hear me. <br />Advice is cheap; 20 cents will get <br />You both Dear Abby and Billy Graham <br />In the same newspaper. <br />And I can do for myself; I am not helpless. <br />Maybe discouraged and faltering, <br />But not helpless. <br />When you do something for me that I can <br />And need to do for myself, <br />You contribute to my fear and <br />inadequency. <br />But when you accept as a simple fact <br />That I feel what I feel, <br />No matter how irrational, <br />Then I can stop trying to convince <br />You and get about this buisness <br />Of understanding what's behind <br />This irrational feeling. <br />And when that's clear, the answers are <br />Obvious and I don't need advice. <br />irrational feelings make sence when <br />we understand what's behind them. <br />Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes, <br />For some peaopl-because GOD is mute, <br />And he doesn't give advice or try <br />To fix things. <br />GOD just listens and lets you work <br />It out for yourself <br />So please llisten, <br />And just hear me, And if you want to talk, Wait a minute <br />For your turn-And i will listen to you.<br /><br />Brittany Coomes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/just-listen/
