Can You Hear It

Can you hear it?

Yes.

Are you sure?

No.

Listen closer?

I’m listening closer.

What can you hear if you really concentrate? 

What?

That sound.

What sound?

The sound just then?

I heard nothing.

That's because you are busy talking.

Well, how rude.

To hear, you've got to listen.

Are you saying I don't know when to shut up. Is that what you are saying? That I talk a lot? Is that what you are saying to me...

Yes.

Really?

But don't worry, you are not the only one.

One of many, is that what you are saying?

The whole world, really, the whole world...

Really?

So many of us are only really interested in what we have to say.

Are you saying that is me?

Well?

I’ll take that as a yes.

You wouldn’t be wrong.

I see.

Now listen.

For how long?

For as long as it takes.

How long is that?

Until you hear it.

Hear what?

That is what you are listening for.

I see.

Do you?

I’m listening for something that I will only hear if I am quiet.

Now you are getting it.

Am I?

Well…

Can you hear it?

What?

The sound of the planet when we shut up.