Whispers
If you sit down quietly
not quietly like that, but like this,
you might find that things are really noisy.
Especially if you live in a city, if you live in the country I can only say YMMV.
But then the noise goes away again, eventually.
If you stay quiet
like that, yes
you might notice that you are thinking.
Especially if you are a voice thinker. If you are a picture thinker instead I can only say YMMV.
And among the thoughts and the feels,
the memories, and the projections,
the decisions-in-the-making, in-the-perceiving, in-the-just-made,
well, you might notice whispers.
The whispers are the thoughts that you are used to shutting up.
Some of them are shut up for good reason. Some habits are just bad and you want to be rid of them.
In all of them there’s the seed of change.
And in the silences between the whispers, between the hopes and dreams and worries
there are opportunities to start saying things you’re not saying, but you want to hear.