Return to fix the forgotten
and answer the lingering careless inquiry
flung from a curious but unaffected mind,
and try to find your value in an errant thank you.
People can’t understand others they don’t know
nor will ever be.
Hide in the mind so as not to hear others,
stewing assumptions,
to serve a plot to the preferred future.
Likeness magnetism
shares a common opinion.
Ask to experience
and glide alongside.
Fear the slip
that can careen into isolation,
yet resist the fear to withdraw.
The wave of another’s opinion warms
or slaps in compliment
or contrast to ones own,
and can build or break connection.
We each own our own mind
and can change it easier than another’s perception
yet they may remember it as immobile
and forever associated with you.
Love the life you built
each a day or event adding
a picture, object or habit.
Act out days in accumulated taste
and agreed protocol.
Meet expectations not ideals.
I added one and you added few
and now surrounded
we keep comfort here.
