Saturday, April 19, 2025

Good Friday poem: "Live and Let Live"

 

Live and Let Live

 

They still puzzle me, these people

whose vision is impaired by a curious

lack of awareness psychologists

calls blind spots; what is the cause

of this bias? Could it possibly be as

simple as a new pair of glasses?

But what kind of glasses can free

a person of their bias? Forgiveness?

Understanding? Compassion? Poets

know the answer to this puzzling

question, telling us that self-deception

is our greatest threat to personal

growth, happiness, and wholeness;

and to see straight, all they need do,

these prejudiced people with impaired

vision, is to live and let live and let

the world find its own way.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Friday, April 18, 2025

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