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Aluah Others

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Aluah is outward looking, and more sensitive to the soul of others than her own.
Even so, she lives in the tangled webs of herself and others.

Aluah Others Prelude
Relating to ourselves is difficult enough in life, then there is the component of relating to others.
How we treat others, and how they treat us. How we make other people feel, and how other people make us feel.

I suppose none of us totally know how others feel, even though we try or at least say comforting words at a time when there are no words.

When others are involved, we may become exasperated with them; and they may become exasperated with us. Either way, there is no road for any of us to live our lives without others.

So I suppose, one of the great challenges in life is for us to understand how others think and feel. Not that they have to think like us, or that we have to think like them; but at least we expand ourselves enough to slightly comprehend someone else.

Living our lives with others is a sharp tool for each of us. I don’t understand all the things I have done to others, and I don’t understand all the things that others have done to me and for what reason.

In ‘Aluah Others’, I explore some of that without big answers, but with thought and feeling; of which, even to this day, I am not sure I understand enough.

 
Can’t Feel Your Pain

It is truly difficult –
If not impossible
To feel someone
Else’s pain.

Even so,
In our own ways
We try to comfort
Or at least say
We understand.

What more can we do,
When we really can’t feel
Someone else’s pain.

Maybe part
Of everyone’s pain,
Is that we can’t feel
Someone else’s pain.



Meanness and Kindness

We all have the
Capacity for kindness,
And mostly think
Of ourselves
As being kind.

We all have the
Capacity for meanness,
And mostly don’t think
Of ourselves
As being mean.

The things
We do in kindness,
May even be held up
By ourselves as
Proof of our goodness.

The things
We do in meanness,
May even be dismissed
By ourselves as
Proving a point.

Either way,
Our acts of meanness
Will always be remembered
More deeply by us than
Our acts of kindness.
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