The Speech Of Babel

"The Speech of Babel”

A Frenzied exchange of conflicitng ideas
Inquisitive eyes seeking reassurance
Do words mean what they appear to mean? Or assume the meaning we want them to?

Distortion of intent solidify in sound.
Variations of theme, lost on the listener.
Speaking of the complexities of ideas
becomes an exercise in verbal futility.

The garble of resonance, identified as speech
is heard and most commonly understood
at a level of the most mundane and mean,
like the frenzied grunting of apes in a cage.

We are a species of mutes who slowly evolved
using sounds from countless towers of babel,
finding perception lies with the listener
And he isn’t listening, or hears what he wants.

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