listen!

“Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’” 1 Samuel 3:10

in the anguished cries

of the oppressed;

in the weeping

on the excluded;

in the questions

of adolescents;

in the words behind

the silence of fears,

you call to us,

so

may we listen

© 2019 Thom M. Shuman