it sees you pass by

it sees you live

you don’t even notice

It extends it’s arm

so it can be touched

it grants you a breath

but you still don’t notice

It sees you age

and build things around it

but it remains

stagnant

and you still don’t notice

Until one day

you age you grow

you visit it

you grab it’s arm

and wish you were it

but it’s too late,

you’re old you fade

but it remains stagnant.

white trees all over,

edges extended on every branch

with white dust all over.

They remain static

as if to look permanently beautiful.

The sun arrives,

dust dissolves into transparent liquid

they no longer extend but only bend,

they become bare,

when the sun arrives.

dark and light,

and light and dark,

an instant apparition.

She saw a walker

shaded black

down a hall

still,

tense,

static.

Dark feeling

wheels were stiff

pulse was mute

it was death.

she saw the child sitting.

Tiled floor

red ball in hand.

Did not look up

didn’t even notice her,

did not hear

did not even blink

the child’s bare focus

was on the red ball

it seemed the world was in

front of him,

it stared back

into his big eyes reflecting the redness

of the ball

what did it mean,

she did not know.

So in the same way we are both listeners and speakers at different instances. What develops from this practice is the dispread of new information, and with it bringing fourth knowledge of something that may be useful if true and useless if information is taken losely and not well based on research or personal experience. Both the listener and the speaker play important roles in a conversation, the one cannot exist or validate its existence without the other. Needless to say both roles are equally important.

To be a good speaker you must know what you are talking about and have a source or some type of evidence of what you are saying, even if its not factual and only opinionated, you must be able to explain the rational behind your thoughts. On the other hand we have the listener, who in order to be a good and true listener must listen to every word and not interrupt what the speaker is saying, not in his mind and not out loud, The reason for both is very simple, if a listener interrupts and i say interrupts a person who is speaking he no longer is a listener, for evident reasons, people who truly listen don’t interrupt. There are also those people who interrupt in their minds, they may listen to a person but then they allow themselves to interrupt with a personal thought about the discussion or worse yet they are interrupted by thoughts that have no relation to the given subject and they tend to tune out. Both tasks are equally important and both tasks if done well are equally honourable.

So how do you begin as a listener or a speaker?

his first night away,

she flipped through

old pictures,

listened to old songs,

read old letters.

All that he sang,

and all that he wrote.

she lied in bed thinking of him,

writing about him,

enjoying the presence of his absence.