I’ll tell you one opinion, girls and boys,
that I with time increasingly believe:
the psyche broadcasting makes so much noise
it overwhelms the power to receive.
“I know, I know,” asserts the egotist,
and thereby blocks the avenue to learn,
for wisdom offering itself is missed
by senses too preoccupied to turn
and take the offering – they’re put instead
to tasks of self-protective affectation.
They’re used to fence the heart and wall the head,
blockading any path to revelation.
If you want answers you can recognize,
you’d better listen for the soft replies.