Jan Richardson, one of my all time favorite poets, wrote a piece called Having Taken the Fruit. Though the whole thing is definitely worth reading, here are the last two verses:
It took a long time to figure out
that my stifling silence
was not a path
back to a paradise
where I could never live.
I finally learned to listen
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