Hearing, not listening

My tears are glistening

"Why won't you listen

Hear with intent

Please don't dismiss

All the messages I've sent"

Yet you sigh and smile

And I get it all the while

That you put no importance

To the words that i say

Am I a joke to you?

Or an eminent presence

Never to leave

One you must receive

But have no duty to

Ever pay attention

What am I to you?

~

I knew long ago you didn't care

But I had the hope you'd ever dare

To listen to the threefold cries

Of a soul, not long before it dies

Physically have I many years to come

But no matter how far I've seemed to run

For you, for us, you fail to show

Any sense of appreciation, or concern

When are you ever going to learn?

I guess this is goodbye, from me to you

Because I really don't know what to do

Whenever in you I try and confide

My true feelings I have to hide