The Traits That Define
People are the way they are;
You take ‘em or you leave ‘em.
They tell you things about themselves;
You do or don’t believe ‘em.
The one thing you cannot expect
Is that you’ll ever change ‘em,
For trying to might backfire
And, in that case, you’ll estrange ‘em.
We all have faults, though some are blind
To how some others see ‘em,
Yet most of us would never trade
Our faults for theirs, to be ‘em.
We must accept in those we love
The traits that do define ‘em,
The positives and negatives,
The way that they combine ‘em
And realize they must do the same
For us, when we’re beside ‘em,
Despite the fact we all believe
We take our faults and hide ‘em.
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