Separate Pathways

Separate Pathways If you want to fill your heart with hate; If you want to bicker, argue, and debate. That's your prerogative if you're so inclined; To be intolerant and asinine. You may spew venom and vile; Choose to be aggressive and hostile. That's on you and your karma's deal; But you don't get to tell me how to feel. I will fill my heart with adoration; Let love be my greatest aspiration. I will allow myself to walk in another's shoes; And listen to understand rather than misconstrue. I'm not here to change another being; I am here to live a life with meaning. Your path is your's alone to walk; The journey will be your responsibility or fault. I'm not your judge, you're not my preacher; I am not my brother's keeper. If sometime our paths should meet; Let our exchange be obsolete. Go your way and I shall go mine; Our lives need not intertwine. May you live the way you see best; For I am on my own life's quest. By: Darlene Doll Smith