Colan Hiatt Poet Quatrain

You Can'T Get There From Here

The adage we have often heard
    “You can’t get there from here”
    Usually, with humor it is said
    Yet another meaning it may adhere

    Your view of an issue, may puzzle me
    From  where I stand today
    But if I had trod the path you have
    I might see things another  way

    Since I don’t know the facts as you
    The least I can do, is speculate
    From that, I have no right to judge
    Just what position you should take

    And so it seems, there is a chasm
    Which neither you or I
    May cross in each other’s life
    Although sincerely, we may try

    Unless I go there, or you come here
    Each others burdens, we don’t know
    If we’ll but apply, the “Golden Rule”
    Perhaps compassion, we both can show.

          Colan L Hiatt  =  Feb., 2007
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