<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0013 And, Friend...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if you wonder, friend, why I begin<br>a poem thus – you are to understand<br>that it’s as if<br>we have been close friends all our life, <br>friends, as Kabir defined a friend<br>as if no-one ever tried to speak of friend before – <br>friends, who share the silences between their words<br>as much as sharing their most inward thoughts; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so, our conversation’s just as much<br>a continuation of our friendship, <br>wasting no time in speaking passing things, <br>sharing some new thought in turn<br>and asking more for listening<br>than easy agreement for politeness’ sake; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">for, we’re listening to the allness of the all -<br>all that has been said and<br>all that cannot yet be said<br>but thought in silences, in pauses between speech, <br>all that we might say<br>when we find words in which to say it, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and because<br>there’s not much time, to say what we would say<br>and so, we speak of that which time<br>can never steal; so there is always time<br>to speak, and hear the silence<br>out of which speech comes; <br>listening for the unspoken<br>bringing miracles</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460428" data-title="0013 And, Friend... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="and if you wonder, friend, why I begin a poem thus – you are to understand that it’s as if we have been close friends all our life, friends, as Kabir defined a friend as if no-one ever tried to speak of friend before – friends, who share t..."></div> </div> </div>

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