Respect and kindness: the lifelong struggle of learning how.

She said to me, “...if she were a fly, I’d want to shoo her away...”

No, that cannot be.
I can’t have her say those things. How did she get to this in the first place...it is not how I go about my life, and hasn’t she modeled me?

Nonetheless, I cannot take the time to examine how I may have gone wrong
It’s the future of her attitude that I must now focus on.

It is wrong for another human to dislike and disrespect
She knows how integral this is to me, because of my own experience.

Many would say I’m not living in a world that’s real
But those same people have not experienced how I feel.

It just is not right to think or believe in anything but making the most of what you possess
For appreciating what others offer,
Become fortunate for what you can, and show respect in having them keep the rest.

And if one can raise that talent
Of seeing any good in all
The world - or even two people - will find a more mutually satisfying balance.

There is no treatment so unkind
As shooing away people, as if they were flies.