Eavesdropping

You want to know
how to keep an open
and full heart
when storms ravage entire communities
children starve beneath barren hillsides
random shots slaughter loved ones.

You want to understand
how unharnessed fear
unearths buried compassions.

Be still and listen.
Listen.
Listen
to the whimpering wind,
to vessels growling and abandoned.
Listen
to the whispered farewell,
the wail of the left-behind.