I Can't Give You Too Much

In dreams, you wake up
most of those things dissapate
those images, those colors, those sounds
What stays?
The most potent, the most quiet

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I have found that people I have the pleasure of meeting,
all tell me, things they have either never talked about
or things they haven't talked about in a long time.
I attribute this to my alien nature, they can sense that
I am feeling and I won't be scared of whatever they divulge.
I will challenge them and I think they want to be challenged.
They want someone to care enough to say something, anything.
They know that I won't just say something, I will feel
what they have told me and speak only words that
dignify and truly acknowledge their experience.

-I. Bailey