{listening:} pierce pettis

"I stutter when I try to speak

the language of life,

I want to shout out loud,

but I just cry inside,
Sometimes it feels so holy;

sometimes so absurd,
So who am I to try and put that into words?

I am nothing,

but the angels sometimes whisper in my ear,
Yeah, they tell me things

and then they disappear,
Though I am nothing,

I sometimes like to make believe I hear."

Pierce Pettis, I Am Nothing