2 knowing me

try walking in other people’s shoes
they say, in order to understand
but don’t overdo it
that you won’t be comfortable
walking in your shoes

try to be sensitive to what others feel
give thought to what others think
but not to the extent
where you won’t know
how to think and feel on your own

don’t be a quilt of everybody’s emotions
patches sewn together of everybody’s thoughts
bits and pieces that don’t make a whole
a collection of scraps
a façade of everybody with nothing underneath

Knowing Me

There is an old saying that says that before you judge others, try to walk in their shoes. What happens when you always put yourself in other people’s shoes that you forget to wear your own? The downside of it is that you won’t feel comfortable in your shoes anymore. Always trying to think about what others will feel and think, you end up becoming a stranger to your own thoughts and feelings. One day you’ll wake up and discover that you don’t have one original thought or feeling. In the end, you will lose the ability to think or feel. You are just made up of the bits and pieces of others, a patch of somebody else sewn together with the scraps of everybody else. A quilt with no pattern or design. You lose the ability to truly sympathize and you can no longer feel true empathy.

Easy

I made it so easy for us to be
That you made it easy to let you go
Little effort from you was required
Therefore little effort was made

I guess it’s true they say
Hard won is worth keeping
You let go of me so easily
Because you got me so quickly

I said yes too early
And you made sure that goodbye was too.
Did we really love
Or we just convenient?

My mistake in thinking we could work
When we didn’t really share our feelings well
You with your scars
And me with my fears

So I guess this is goodbye
And I’m learning that
Saying yes too quickly
Will mean saying goodbye too soon.