i think i understand.

Share your secret

With me, please,

If you need a listener.

The insecure and intimate

And self-exposing thoughts

Will not escape the confinements of your trust.

I am not skilled in speaking

Or making small, idle talk.

The words, the expressions

Convey more meaning flowing into my brain

Than they do when I hear the noise

Uselessly leaving my mouth.

I like to listen, relate, and debate.

I like to console, counsel, and empathize.

I even like nodding my head.

Share with me 

Anything that goes on in your mind

That would like to come outside.

Let me sit with you,

Let me think, cry, and try to

Have a new perspective.

Make the small talk,

Make the even bigger talk,

Make whatever you wish,

And I will be there.

So please shut me up,

But never shut me out.

I am a listener.