differences

differences

really show you

yourself

like going to Europe

i discovered how American I was

someone with a very different background

teaches me what i am

and what i am not

much more clearly

than someone very similar

where differences are invisible

seamless

where we both share the same deception

the same blindness

someone who doesn't really know me

will lay their story on me

and now i will see who i am

in the midst of "attack"

can i still be loving

in the face of this ignorance

this "denial"

"hogwash"?

or must i

explain myself?

must i win them over?

must I change their perception

of me?

who am i in the face of my "bludgeoning/crucifixion"?

will i bludgeon them?

or rest

assured

will i be curious

open minded enough

to ask myself

if perhaps

their different vantage point

doesn't actually see something

i

have

missed?

perhaps

friction

can

result

in

smootheness...

hmmm....

God

is

in

everything i hear........................