TALKING IT THROUGH- Andrew Whyte
That is what all the Counsellors tell you Nouthetic or non-directive Talk it through! Stand your ground! Don ' t fight! Don ' t flight! Don ' t enter your cave! Don ' t descend into your well! Just talk it through Perfectly simple counsel, you might say Except that in the thought of Oscar, nothing is perfect or simple Certainly not the truth But we do have to get to and through the wall Like the lonely distance runner in every story. Through the wall of Trumpet Sound Through the wall at the point where Banksy Built the Walled Off Hotel Through every wall that separates Keeping them out Keeping us in Forgetting that guarding your heart Is not a prison sentence!
2 When the clouds are full the rains will fall When a big tree falls it lies by itself A living Hyena is better than a dead Lion Qohelet the Didact said that When is enough enough? When have we pushed through enough? That will have to be,.... when it is enough! That is the checkout time Andrew checked out, then checked in And finally representationally gave out When the first blow lands
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