Permutations of Confusion

You know, when it comes down to it
We are all in the same boat.
Communication!
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No matter how good or bad your vocabulary
You struggle to put across your
Ideas, thought, and feelings.
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Nobody understands me,
Complaint of old and specially the young.
I am uniquely me!
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To be understood
A craving, driving force
That sends us to like-minded minds.
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To put pin to paper
Fingers to keyboard
Brush to canvas,
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Hands to clay
Chisel to stone,
And on and on.
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Alas, meaning slithers
Like a snake
From one mind to another.
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So many ways to be misunderstood
You think they understand
But they don’t.
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You think they didn’t
Get it at all,
But they did
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You both think
You understand
But neither do.
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You know that they
Didn’t understand
And they didn’t
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Permutations of confusion
It is a wonder we understand anything
Another might tell us.
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This I have come to believe
And that is:
To be understood by others
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One must learn to try
To understand
The other.
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This is a path
Any can walk
But the self absorbed
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Trite thought it may be
To have a friend
You have to be a friend.
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