No Understanding

Mike S.

Sad, Hully, but excellent!

jaylisbeth

This is amazing, Hully! Very well done...we often feel this way.

Sue Harris

Great stuff Hully... hear hear!

Tom Allen714

I really liked it Hull...Tom...

Dr. Acula

Totally get it , totally understand it, totally know why you said it.
It just aggravates me that it has to be said. However, if they don't get it after its been said, then they'll never get. You know that old saying...you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink....welll...you can give a person a brain , but you can't make them think )
Should just make you realize how much higher you are...than them :D
Alas, the good fight always continues on, so in the meantime, guess we'll have to make some adjustments, put on our heavy boots, and kick a little butt along the way :D

john regan

I took the poem to be a inward look at oneself, Hulla. I may have got this wrong. I thought it was about the doubts s person possesses and that we aren't who we think we are. Those multiple voices in our head that sometimes encourage but other times berate us.
A line from a song: 'Be who you are I tell myself, but my self tells me, we can't be anybody else.,

Jeff Bezaire

Wow, I love how this can be read as if talking to someone or talking to yourself. I love the defiance and frustration expressed - of being under-valued or underestimated; of being misunderstood. It's difficult for anyone to truly know someone. It's a tricky thing to know yourself - we're always surprising ourselves or underestimating our abilities throughout life. But it's so easy to judge someone or think you've determined who they are by a simple act or word they've spoken or by how they carry themselves. "Judging a person does not define who they are; it defines who you are."
Never let their judgement affect who you are.
If only people were interested in getting to know one another instead of building walls and passing judgement from atop their fort.
A deep, well-worded piece, Hully. A great punch at the end!