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I also could speak as you do
    if you were in my place.
I could make great speeches against you.
    And I could shake my head at you.
But, instead, my words would encourage you.
    I would speak words of comfort to bring you relief.

“But if I speak, my pain does not become less.
    And if I don’t speak, it still does not go away.

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