talking out of the sleep box

Most talk is
sleep talk

we've got phrases
we yank 'em up,
spew them out

we sorta listen
and about ten seconds into what the other
person is saying,
que up the stock phrase that we'll insert
as soon as we can
often
before they've finished whatever they are
saying
which we stopped listening to
a
while

back

and
what if

what if

we listened,
without any words in our head,
just listened

and sensed our body in gravity
and watched them ( the other person, the other people outside of us)
in
light
and
sound
and maybe even 
attending with attention
awareness
waking up
call it what you want
to
our sensations in the torso
.........
the emotional listening
and feeling into them

and then
they finish
and we breathe
and look at them
and sense in
again
what do they need
or
what would be fun
or
what do we want to add to build the game
build the communication
build the
relationship

and then
not thinking too much
we start to talk
and sense our bodies in the now
in the up and down
of gravity
and feel our tongues moving
and watch them in light
and hear our own voices
in sound
and
in sensation in our throat and tongue
and mouth

it's bigger

slow down
and see
what being present as you talk
could be

it's radical,
indeed