you forgot how to pay attention

man, just sit and be quiet!
breathe and listen...
this be the forest and for as big and bad as you think you are...
you ain't.
listen to the wind, use your nose, smell where it's been...
did you catch that? jasmine faint, but it's there...
pine...deer...a bear hunting salmon...
all this going on, did you know?
no, you forgot how to pay attention to what's real...
too busy being distracted by 'agreements'...
money, power, boundaries...all agreements...
to which i disagree...
if only i could harness the desperate, crazy pain i feel
for all that's been lost...
i would use this power to bring it all back...
and shatter these agreements...
just give me the forest, let me sit quiet and listen...
and you can be damned sure,
i will know to pay attention...