Listen

Listen to the rustling of the leaves.

Listen to the babbling water of the crystal-clear river.

Listen to the song that is carried aloft by the wind across the nations.

Listen carefully because if you listen you will hear the echoes of time, the voices lost to history.

Do you hear it?

Do you hear the beats of the hammer?

The beats echoing out across the days, months, and years.

The beats that hold the voices, the stories, of the men and women who built history.

Do you understand what they say?

Do you understand why? Why the voices speak to you?

Do you comprehend the experience that is being passed to you?

Do you understand what time has forgotten so easily and what history wishes to tell?