When your own thoughts are clogging your head,

No one else’s can get through yours,

if you aren’t listening–

“You can’t just– 

I’ve already told you–”

Whenever I fight with my parents I beg them to listen. 

And when they fight with me they beg me to do the same. 

Our words fall on deaf ears because

no one is listening.

All I can hear are the words flying through my head

“If you just listened– 

you’d understand why–  ”

And the only thing they hear is what they want to.

I beg them to hear me,

And they think they do.

I tell them –

“I am listening–” 

Because I think I am.

But the only thing I am hearing

 is how they are wrong

And that I am right– 

How do you listen.