Daydreaming

What is conversation?
When your lips part
Your tongue moves
Sound is make
Speech is heard

But do I listen
We follow clues
Parts to determine
Enunciation
Articulation

Gather meaning
Even in, the absence
Human narcissism
We need to hear
Our selves speak

Need others to realize
That we exist
Else, it's a void
Some take their time
Other 'minimalists'

Speak quickly
With such volition
With such sophistication
Or not
Incoherent "grammar"

Lack thereof
Testament to the fact
That I am not listening
Wonder why we do this
Because we both speak

Laugh, agree, and bond
To an outsider
We are in 'sync'
Yet to each other
No one really wants

To hear the other
Really doesn't care
Yet respects
The need to speak
And I guess

That is how human
Interaction goes, at
Times, authenticity
Not always possible
Work out of empathy

Knowing what is like
Someone not to listen
To you, not to care
Be there for you
Perhaps the reason

'Reality' television shows
Poetry over music
Telling jokes in front
Of audiences, the gift of
Speech, intelligence

And abstraction, that you
Can displace, broad concepts
That imagination can live
Personalization, what you've
Said, what it means

To the individual, technology
That those who cannot speak
Artistic, even the autistic
It means something, the
Human life cannot exist

Without leaving traces
Thus immortality
Thus the vain 'deity'
We assign or proclaim
As selves, it is no wonder

Perhaps in the most
Insignificant form
Where only that other
Person across from you
It is enough for today