If I Knew Then

If I Knew Then

If I knew then what I know now

It might not have been so easy

To reject you just because

You did everything to please me

If I knew then what I know now

I’d appreciate how rare

It is to find someone in this world

Who honestly and truly cares

The wisdom of years eviscerates fears

Youth has a way of sowing

And so, with hindsight that’s 20/20

I’ll be content with knowing

That someone, somewhere along the way

Loved me for who I was

And treated me the way, it seems,

That now nobody does

You have a life; I’d never dream

Of ruining that, but how

Different things might have been

If I knew then what I know now.

-elocin, 2007

Small

The world is full of small people—

Not little, but small.

The kind who view the world in a box

and choose right and wrong

based on their minimal perception

then force others to conform

to their way of thinking

or else suffer the consequences.

People like this clutter the world

with their petty, diminutive view

of Life the way it ought to be

instead of the way it is.

People like this are hurtful

People like this are wrong

People like this ruin people like us

(if you can be joined

in the group of those

who step back to view the larger picture,

and make appropriate judgments based on facts,

not opinions).

I despise small people

I hurt when they choose to categorize me

It affects me when they judge me

as if I didn’t matter.

Would not the world be better

if everyone expanded

their view in order to avoid

snap judgments and biased opinions?

I think it would

and yet I vow

to allow others their choice

as I would wish to have from them.