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