We Don't Ask

HUMANS - Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian We don’t ask We assume We build our bridges out of guesses Then wonder why they burn We speak in riddles And call them truths We want to be heard Not questioned We want agreement Not progression So we drown in conversation Choke on miscommunication We draw lines through chaos And pretend they form a picture We crave clarity But worship confusion Meaning bends Under the weight of certainty Indifference becomes logic Inference god We stop listening Jump to conclusions And still we wonder Why it’s so difficult To find answers And I’m no different I speak in shorthand Listen through filters Base beliefs on instinct And call defensiveness intuition I dress my words in armor And then I wonder why No one can hold them Now the feed fills in the blanks for us It finishes our thoughts Our fears It predicts our rage Before we ever even feel it We scroll through mirrors And call them friends The silence isn’t quiet anymore It’s been optimized Every pause An advertisement Every opinion A performance We are all connected And no one is communicating Maybe we start again When we stop pretending to comprehend Maybe we learn to ask Without accusation To answer without fear Maybe we find language again Not to persuade But to understand