Before listening to the optimistic Bob Brown

Standing on a precipice to hear
the great man.
To hear him and not fall is the trick.
Bob Brown,
great through his bravery in standing for the environment
great as he stands in a public space as a gay man in a hostile world
but for me, it is his simply humanity that makes him great.
On the day my twin sister husband fell from Federation Peak,
he called to offer his sympathy.
A simple act of humanity
towards a stranger who
herself, was falling from a great height.