Minds
If it were possible to enter your mind
I would be stunned at what I would see.
Noble ideas unexpressed would I find,
Some of which would be about me.
Pain I gave you would be tucked away
In a place formed to forge it for naught.
And the unkind things I spoke to you
Would be hidden as words you forgot.
Your motives I perceived as perverse
I would discover were not in sight.
In fact I would uncover the reverse,
And promise to make things right.
Why is it I wonder to think the worst
Of one whose mind we cannot know.
Is it really ill will for which we thirst,
Forgetting the sanctity of each soul?
I long to believe that's wholly wrong—
That we seek in others all that's fine,
Seeing them as souls good and strong.
Not unlike the blessing I pray for mine.
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