Listen

Are you listening?

Can you hear?

There it is.

A whisper.

At most.

Subtle. Unassuming.

Timid. Reserved.

Again. Did you hear it?

Have you been paying attention?

The whisper has been persistent.

It has been ushering to you for some time.

An imperceptible niggle.

Or at least that’s how you have rationalised it.

But the whisper is truer than real.

The whisper doesn’t speak in tongues.

But plain and simple.

Perfectly understandable.

You have just convinced yourself otherwise.

You say you don’t know.

But the whisper knows you do.

It calls bullshit.

Because it has been telling you all along.

Spelling out the truth.

Waiting for you to answer.

There it is again.

This time it grows fainter.

You dull it with more stimulus.

Eventually it fades.

And suddenly without it,

You feel lost. Lonely.

You miss the whisper.

If only you listened before.

Who could you have been.

Alas you start the search.

For the whisper is closer than you think.

In time you will find it again.

If it does not find you first.

Are you listening?

Paying attention?

For there it is again.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen.