tell your friends you love them ... no , i mean it , tell them say , i love you say , you make life worth living because that is what friends do of all of the wonderful things that you could 've done during this very , very long poem you could have connected maybe you are connecting maybe we 're connecting see , i believe that the only things that really matter in the grand scheme of life are god and people and if people are made in the image of god then when you spend your time with people it 's never wasted and in this very long poem i 'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does : make things simpler we do n't need poems to make things more complicated we have each other for that we need poems to remind ourselves of the things that really matter to take time a long time to be alive for the sake of someone else for a single moment or for many moments 'cause we need each other to hold the hands of a broken person all you have to do is meet a person shake their hand look in their eyes they are you we are all broken together but these shattered pieces of our existence do n't have to be a mess we just have to care enough to hold our tongues sometimes to sit and listen to a very long poem a story of a life the joy of a friend and the grief of a friend to hold and be held and be quiet so , pray write a postcard call your parents and forgive them and then thank them turn off the tv create art as best as you can share as much as possible , especially money tell someone about a very long poem you once heard and how afterward it brought you to them she wipes another tear from her eye when the performer steps away from the microphone .