Your Favorite Poems

femmedyke · 06-28-2012, 03:17 PM

Be Kind

we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious.

one is asked to view their total error their life-waste with kindliness, especially if they are aged.

but age is the total of our doing. they have aged badly because they have lived out of focus, they have refused to see.

not their fault?

whose fault? mine?

I am asked to hide my viewpoint from them for fear of their fear.

age is no crime

but the shame of a deliberately wasted life

among so many deliberately wasted lives

is.

Charles Bukowski

06-28-2012, 03:17 PM	#10
femmedyke Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: mostly in my head Posts: 396 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 638 Thanked 957 Times in 198 Posts Rep Power: 8571021	Be Kind we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked to view their total error their life-waste with kindliness, especially if they are aged. but age is the total of our doing. they have aged badly because they have lived out of focus, they have refused to see. not their fault? whose fault? mine? I am asked to hide my viewpoint from them for fear of their fear. age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is. Charles Bukowski __________________ “purple does something strange to me” -charles bukowski