Fortune Cookie

Talk less and listen more
My fortune cookie said
To stop being a bore
Be empathic instead

And I might learn something along the way
From something somebody else has to say

Thirty years have passed now
Each season in its turn
But I am aghast how
Some people never learn

If we all could talk less and listen more
To something somebody else has to say
Think and then ask what we are dying for
We just might learn something along the way

The way away from war:
Talk less and listen more

+Steven Curtis Lance



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