What You Dislike In Others Poem by Francis Duggan

Years ago a wise woman did say to me
What you dislike in others is what you dislike in yourself you see
With her intuitive insight i could only agree
Other people can be our reflective mirrors is how it seems to be
That there are none of us perfect happens to be so
And your best friend of today may become your future foe
The wrongs we do to others return to haunt us one day
What goes around comes around life is this way
Though you have no reason to dislike them since they have never done to you any wrong
There are people with whom you cannot get along
What the wise woman told me years ago was right
She left me with quite an amazing insight
That what we dislike in others in our own selves we do see
And what applies to others too applies to me.