1. “Who listens to us in all the world?

2. Whether he be friend, or teacher, brother or father or mother

3. sister or neighbor, son or ruler or servant?

4. Does he listen, our advocate, or our husbands or wives, those who are dearest to us?

5. Do the stars listen, when we turn despairingly away from man,

6. or the great seas, or winds of the mountain?

7. To whom can any man say – Here I am.

8. Behold me in my nakedness, my wounds, my secret grief,

9. my despair, my betrayal, my pain,

10. my tongue which cannot express my sorrow, my terror, my abandonment.

11. Listen to me for a day – an hour – a moment.

12. Lest I expire in my terrible wilderness, my lonely silence. Photo borrowed

13. Oh – God, is there no one to listen?” Seneca, 6th Century BC

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