Keen Listener

O, an amazing woman she is! She has heard my heart’s cries, thoughts, and questions, without ever raising her voice or eye brows. Once as a drug addict, she heard my heart shout “I can’t take it anymore!” so many times. Like an angel seeing through a mortal’s wounded soul, she looked at me with a warm smile, and told me that everything would be alright…. She heard my heart’s pain and despair, when the rest of my world came crumbling on me; a letter of suspension for drug use and possession in college, a girl embarrassed to love me, myself a laughing stock around my colleagues, and a father who was ready to show me the door. A decade later, I realized she was right! Everything now is alright! Her love is irreplaceable!