I look at you and you look ahead
I frown and you do not see
I speak but you make no reaction
I speak again and you say you hear me.

So yes, you hear me.
But are you listening?
Am I making contact?

Hearing and listening
Confuse them not as synonyms
Not for each other

Hearing is at the surface,
Simply hovering but doing nothing
But listening is absorption,
The words going deep, deep within and taking affect.
Are they making contact?

You tell me again that you hear,
But are you listening?

I stomp, I yell
I scream, I cry
But all you can do is hear me.
How on Earth do I make contact?

But you are unaware of my struggle
My words simply bounce off your bubble
No matter how hard I try
How I try to make contact!

So I wait and stare
Wait for you to turn for me
Stare to get it through your head
You must be able to listen to that!

Surely if my words don’t reach you
My silence must!

So I stare on and on.
I am forced to wait for contact.