Taking Understanding For Granted
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
One should never take for granted,
What is believed to understand...
To later realize,
What was thought to understand...
Taken out of context,
Misunderstood.
For example...
Remember when I told you,
What was done you did to be stupid?
'Yeah.
I remember that?'
And then you had an attitude,
When I called you...
One of the dumbest fools,
I had ever met?
'Yep.
I remember that too.'
What were you thinking,
Later that same week...
When I said repeatedly to you,
No imbecile or an idiot...
Would go out of their way,
To prove they were brainless...
Pathetic and a waste of breath to breathe?
'Well...
I know most people,
Have their own way to apologize.
So...
I accepted your apology.
To now realize,
You're no different than anyone else...
Wanting to hope,
How you feel about yourself...
Is forgiven.
And I do.
I forgive you.
Stop beating yourself up that way.
It's not healthy.
Not at all.
So...
What you did done to be stupid.
Pathetic and a waste of breath?
Look at it this way...
I understood to understand,
It wasn't me you were talking to or about.
I get it.
You were actually talking about yourself,
Right?'
No!
There you go.
Always misunderstanding what I say!
How I say it, when I say it and why.
'How?
How am I misunderstanding?
It was later that week it dawned on me.
To realize exactly,
Where you were coming from.
To come to me and apologize.
And you did.
I expected you would.
So...
What did I misunderstand?
Not to have understood?'
Forget it!
'That's what I have been trying to tell you.
FORGET IT!
I did.
Now...
You are trying to make a mountain,
Out of a molehill!
And for what reason?
Just to start an argument?
I'm not stupid like you.
What don't you understand you want me,
To make understood?!
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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