Why wasn't I Listening?
Closed my eyes and listened... Loud shrills from an insect coming from the left, I opened my eyes and now I hear three, Two more further away, Why wasn't I listening? Closed my eyes and listened... Now there was a cacophony of insects, Four and Five, maybe more. I opened my eyes and a car drove past, Its engine blasting in the night sky Why hadn't I heard that? Closed my eyes, took a breath and listened, Ah, there's another car and ah, there are the insects, I opened my eyes and there were not one car, There were three, But fainter the further they were. There is a difference between hearing and listening. We often only want to listen to what we want to hear, But never hear what we ought to listen.
