Listen Quietly And Get Blasted

Relax into the waking of the morning birds

Listen to the riffs of that little creek going by

Maybe notice how the rippling breeze makes the aspens sigh

Realize that our vapid yammering is all that we do and simply who we are

Listen carefully as one thunderclap moves slowly around the horizon

Hear the million tiny raindrops softly brushing that metal roof

Listen to the snowflakes fall ever so lightly on your cap

Now opened up, take in that semi and see what noise really means

Listen to her heartbeat and the sounds of her breathing

Pay attention for a moment to just one single echo

Stop up your thoughts, close your eyes and flow off with it

Witness as some asshole stray mega-bass truck violates your home and brain

Get filled with the black and silver silence of a peaceful two in the morning

Understand what he says and ignore the media hype and the office trappings

Listen to the words apart from their cloaking feel-good music and children’s images

Consider the mental vacuum required to delightedly create gas-powered noise

Take a little bit of comfort when the bulldozer finally stops

Hear the pines singing but not seeking your attention

Note how the waterfall drowns out the woods

Keep trying to believe that loud and random noises don’t really affect you

Take heart that all our thoughtless bedlam is blessed by god and country

Hear each footfall on the trail as you head out into the wilderness

Attend to the frogs if you have luck enough to be near them

Know that all their proudly belligerent and ignorant braying ends only in eternal silence

Dissolve into the soft rhythms as she carefully licks clean her puppies

Hear only that dozing calico cat purring peacefully on your lap

Concentrate for a moment on the silent syllables between the sounds

As some doctors hobby plane freely shatters perfectly good silence for miles around

Compare and contrast the quiet to the noise and make your own simple judgment

Notice how the lowly animals instinctively know to simply just shut the fuck up

Measure changes in your heartbeat and breathing from shattering Harley staccato

Answer their witless crap with a well-deserved and measured response of empty silence

Sit quietly listening to a small fire crackle in good darkness

At least once hear as raindrops strike a calm lake - from underwater

Ask them by what right they violate the ancient wisdom of simple peace and quiet

Just listen if you will, being quiet if you can, to our fool cacophony of toxic audio emissions