The Burdens of the Listener

The Job of a Listener
Is chosen
To be helpful
Although unaware of consequences

He knows
That as a listener
People come to him
When people can't handle life

One day
The Listener
Makes a find
That he was unknowledgable of

He loooks at his contract
When he sees a word
Between the lines
that says, "Translator"

He pondered at the word
But didn't think much of it
Until he became the Listener
Of his own family

The Family Listener's road
Is much narrower
And feels easy to get lost
When the road is only one person wide

With the promotion
of Family Listener
Comes a new ability
To translate

Translating the words
or body language
that's seceret to everyone
But the Family Listener of course

Not long after
The Family Listener
Sees yet another
Writing Between the Lines

This time saying
"Will take on eventually
Becoming the fortune teller
Of his own life"

And soon enough
He began to connect
The puzzle pieces of observations
That contained his life's path

He put together
His family member's true colors
Stories, experiences, memories
Eventually everything, then stopped

Stopped because he was finished
With his life long puzzle
He becomes quiet
as the picture begins to sink in

This will all happen to him
Good and Bad
in one way or another
Oh why must history repeat itself!