Christopher Hansard:[ Stop to Hear]

Have you in the still of night

gazed up into the stars?

Or listened to the sound of the sea?

Or heard the rush of birdsong in the early morning in a deep and wide forest?

Have you been into the depths of the earth where if you listen with your heart,

you can hear the Earth turning in space?

Have you heard the fury of an arguement in a neighbour’s house

or lover’s quarelling in the street

have you heard the words of love

that dwell in all of these?

Stop to hear the words, soft and quiet

on the highest mountain or on a busy road

in an airport or the swelling rolling sea

in the lonely times

and the overflowing

the words are spoken

there lives an everlasting  opportunity