Look At The Story

Look at the story.

What do you see?

What does someone want you to see?

What do you not want to see?

Look at the story.

Look carefully.

Look more carefully than you have.

Ask the questions that the story invites.

Listen to the answers that come.

Listen more carefully than you want to.

Look at the story.

Look at what can be seen.

Look at what is missing.

Look at what is on the periphery.

Gaze at what is in the center.

Look at the story.

Look with your eyes open.

Look with your heart OPEN.

Look with your intuition Open.

Look with your soul OPEN.

Look at the story.

Look at it through someone else’s eyes.

Which means, listen to another story.

Allow the resonance and dissonance

to teach you to see.

Look at the story.

If you can,

If you will,

Look at the story.

If you have seen it,

tell it to someone who can

Look at the story.

Poem by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion