Don't

Don't spit on someone's food, don't steal their thunder

It's not nice to rip scabs off their mood, to pop their bubble a blunder

Do not jerk rugs out from under them, don't their treasure plunder

Bite your tongue don't condemn, just nod with wonder

Far better to be thought dumb than to prove your case

To their argument be numb, let them save face

No need to beat your drum, staying mum is no disgrace

The first rule of thumb, is listen then leave with grace

No need to pull someone's string, don't step on their toes

To their delusion let them cling, let them think their garbage smells like a rose

Raise your middle finger, No, don't turn and thumb your nose

Let your smile linger, although you know, their bull you can expose

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Such an interesting post. But I have quite the difference of opinion. If other's want to suffer their delusions it's of no consequence to me. But if others want "me" to suffer their delusions along with them I must insist that shall not be the case. I will not suffer insanity while I am sane, nor stupidity while I am not stupid, nor someone else's confusion when I see with perfect clarity. I will not call a sheep a goat nor a dog, a cat simply because someone else thinks I ought to. It is not condemnation to possess the discernment or rationality to determine reality from another's psychotic delusion. These days the mantra is accept, accept, accept. To what point? Shall we 'accept' pedophiles, rapists and murderers as merely misunderstood equals? Shall we grant the same privileges to the criminally insane as to the rationally competent? Because, someone, somewhere, has to make that decision. That decision requires sound judgement and not "we'll just play it by ear and see how it goes" philosophy. That's a recipe for human suffering. It's being done now in burned out cities where law enforcement has turned a blind eye to lawbreakers because of politics. The "don't rock the boat" philosophy works fine until your boat is full of snakes. By then it's time to jump overboard and forget all ambitions of saving the boat. For evil to triumph does not require that good men should become evil. It only requires that good men do nothing.

[Soren]

Thanks Fabian appreciate the read and your point of view. I used to argue with drunks and the insane but found it a waste of time and it made me look silly.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

There are people in power as we speak (educated people) telling others that men can become pregnant and have menstrual cycles. Planned Parenthood is propounding this forward thinking "idea" as medical fact. The problem isn't with arguing but with your choice of whom and over what you are arguing. I must admit that I feel sort of silly telling people that men can't get pregnant but here we are in a completely insane world.

[Soren]

Thanks Fabian I agree there are many with very strange ideas

[Fabian G. Franklin]

It doesn't bother me in the least that they have "strange ideas". It's when they try to teach my young impressionable child these lies and I become the person who has to say they are wrong. I'm fighting with the school system over these stupidities (I can't call them less) on a regular basis. They aren't just "strange ideas" they are lies. But that's what we can expect when our current administration hires a Harvard educated transgender (Rachel Levine) as public Health Secretary. The aberration that lives the lie wants everyone else to join them in confirmation of the lie (even at the price of losing our children) I refuse. I've NEVER lied to my kids about anything so having others insist that I should makes me more that a little defensive. The insanity has to stop somewhere. We CAN NOT all just "get along".

[Marie]

Wow! Love this lesson embroidered in words in this sublimely penned poem. Many people need to read it, they have much to learn from each of the three stanza's, dear Soren. So many profess to see others as brothers and sisters, but they don't see them as brothers and sisters when they hear bad news about them, they spread it like wildfire not knowing if what they heard is true or not. I love the title of the poem, it acts as a warning to the reader in what not to do. There is no need to pull the rug from under anyone to prove we are stronger than them. We should be looking out for them in case they trip over the rug and be there to either prevent it or help them up. A candle does not lose any of its light by allowing another candle to be lit from it. A captivating write, sublimely inked. I enjoyed reading very much, dear Soren and I, thank you for sharing. Lovely work!!!

[Soren]

Thanks Marie for the read and mostunderstanding comment. Years ago I was taught that you never contradict someone when the speak and that arguing never convinces the other party it only makes you look bad like arguing with a drunk.

[Marie]

Agree 110% dear Soren. You so poetically captured that in this classic write. Thank you again for sharing, my dear friend...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Move over, Confucious----

[Soren]

Yea I've been reading him too much lately. Thanks for the read Jacob