outside

living inside their own world, 

inside their own minds, 

it is almost impossible to either really know others 

or really understand others

too often we assume that other people think 

much as we think

and we despair at those who diverge 

from what we know to be right

beliefs and civilization depend upon 

different thinking people to agree 

a minimum of a same ideology 

misunderstanding and mistakes too common

important and imperative we do our best to understand 

while living inside our own closed world 

sympathy, empathy, altruism, charity, kindness 

dependent upon this

evil minded men to appear as good

right minded people to appear as evil 

perspective measured within

fears not other’s fears, 

fears not greater or lesser 

right, religion, pain,

living in the narrow space 

sharing life, the internal voices

not knowing other fear, hope, dream, wish, belief

an uncertain man 

apart from others 

wishing to were a part of others

study all and know what cannot be known

men cannot know as women know 

races cannot know as other races know

oppressors cannot know as the oppressed know

slave owners cannot know as the slave knows

jeg.

10/18