OUR TWO TRUTHS

When comparing our two truths, they are different or the same.
Withholding or compromising your own truth, will cause pain.
For your truth is yours, and my truth is mine, that’s accepted.
Never let anyone convince you that your truth, must be rejected.

What is true for you, is based on what you know and have seen.
Sadly, two truths are blurred together, behind the smokescreen.
Now, your truth is not yours, and mine is not mine, just the same.
The anger, jealousy, and unhappiness are hard to try to refrain.

There is a better way, changing the thinking from our old past.
Making each person aware of differences they have amassed.
Neither truth is wrong or right, or even good nor bad, it just is.
Each truth, needs unpacking without judgement, with analysis.

Listening without judgement or conversion, I can understand.
Not wanting to covert their truth with shame and reprimand.
Their truth can stay the same, and mine can as well, the rule.
Neither one of us, deserve to be embarrassed like we’re a fool.

Difference creates similarities, if we’re able to look with abstract.
The contrasting differences with understanding, make us attract.
If I can understand your truth and rationale, and you just repeat.
Neither one of us, will have to make our truth, be what we retreat.

Our similarities, make us connect, our differences create respect.
Listening to respond, it is compassion and empathy, we neglect.
When listening to understand, it’s there, that our similarities exist.
Without open-minded listening, it will be those things we missed.

Written by Craig Dunkleberger