Opposites Attract
We simply disagree it seems
With each other’s beliefs and esteems
We don’t have the same ideas
Or share the same viewpoints
We don’t know how to get along
Achieve a degree of peacefulness
Where others can settle their differences
We seem to differ on every opinion
We once were friends who harmonized
Agreeing on every way we turned
But time brought us into a quarrelsomeness
And we are more focused on our diversities
We loved each other many years ago
Shared our feelings, thoughts and opinions
Felt as if we were sisters who synchronized
Then things fell apart so we are unbalanced
We don’t get along the way we once did
When we’re together there is a disturbance
From all the ways we find to clash and argue
Discovering the ways we wish to change the other
We are lost amid the jagged edges of opposition
Living within a circle of pure conflict that destroys
Seeing our dreams of shared hope falling to the sidelines
While we reach out to bicker about the color of dewdrops
We fight about the outcome of every argument
Differ more and more as time takes us through history
Will we ever find a way to accept our differing opinions
And get back to the way we once had of balancing joy?
Opinion Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
June 24, 2020
N-A re-run 9 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton
Entered July 1, 2020
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