Sounds like...

Ever heard sound from the lips
but not understood the meaning
of a friend or neighbour's quips
- like seeing without reading?

Then on hearing them repeat
(if that's what you asked them to do)
sounds arrange themselves (quite neat)
into the words that you well knew...

Why then, did you not "get it"
when you at first heard all those sounds?
"Lost decoding" (forget it)?
You're mind's too busy (doing rounds)?

He who always sees & hears,
who gave us our eyes, lips, & ears,
started culture (which appears
to birth language, also which cheers

us on, backs up ordered life,
makes us human instead of wolf)
whose fixed attention is rife,
and like new parents - very full

of thoughts & hopes for their babe,
yet wants their babe to grow to choose
(not as robot, or as "shade")
and grow to hold their own good views.

I wonder if this shy one
loans to us some understanding
every time hearing's begun
'n'insight gained without demanding.