The crickets and cicadas
Stridulate & serenade us
The coyotes & the owl
Their ethereal echoes howl
The stars flickering at night
Pronounced against the dying light
Everything so far away and hiding
Each thing begging where residing
In dreams or delusions, still presiding
The sound of every need confiding
A whole world in desperate need
of attentions not received
This world cries out alone
in at least a trillion deafened tones
Each face searching to be seen
while staring blindly at some scene
Every product on every shelf
Born to draw all eyes and wealth
Every ad on every surface
Designed to distract unto one purpose
Are you hungry, could you eat
Don't even answer, buy a treat
Are you lonely or in need
Pay the price or wait and bleed
There's a world of objects screaming
To be seen and keep you dreaming
They all need someone to own
And they too seem so, all alone
Do you hear this drone of dollars
Will you answer the horrid hollers
See each profile, site, and post
Each pleading to be your host
Will you like, subscribe, and share
Won't you at least pretend to care
Every click on every page
Is this really how we engage
Are the responses ever sufficient
Are we to be present or omniscient
The world is in such need of attention
As if that's become the only mission
Can anything relax at all
Must everything sound a call
Have you ever been blissfully ignored
And left alone to your own accord
Have you ever attended to being alone
Leaving the world to plead on its own
Hear the world in all its screaming
See the desperate signals pleading
Does your silence seem anemic
Is your absence any less scenic
Or does the world go on unchanged
As if nothing's ever been rearranged
In your silence and this shade
Are new illuminations conveyed
Are you compelled to attend to life
And forget the pettiness of your strife
Do you seek to sooth those screaming
Do you wish to witness greater dreaming
Has this captured your attention
Do you have a newfound mission
Do worlds all remains the same
Do all desires feed one flame
Till the fires burn up everything
As we breathe the smoke in deep
And shelter souls we care to keep
Every scream against the void
Every whispering humanoid
Unto gods, consumers, & all others
Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers
We beg the heavens, hells, & earth
To see us here for what it's worth
Praying we might live forever
Or wishing we were just more clever
All we speak, pray, think, or are
In words that only go so far
Even with all eyes upon us
It all seems so, so, superfluous
Is the void which screams within
Or embedded everywhere we've been
Surely it can't be in all things
Crying out against their endings
That would warrant such attention
To too many things to ever mention
Where would we begin to focus
Could there be some starting locus
All these things in our dimension
A world in need of such attention
What is it we pay our mind to
What life-force do we attend to
In this world which cries eternal
Are eyes or tears more sempiternal
A world in need of such attention
Far beyond all comprehension
Screams of ancient competition
All declare their own contention
Why their cries deserve ascension
Into the empyrean of some mention
Above the clouds of all convention
Is there a realm without this pension
Or a world in need of such attention
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