Trash Or Treasure Poem by Laurence Overmire

You cannot force
Someone to value
What you yourself hold dear

Life can be seen
From so many different
Angles

And who's to say
Really
What is right and what is wrong?

And far too often
And often tragically
There is no meeting

Of the minds.

So when you look
For what is needed
To bridge the gaps

Between

One truth and another
First find the change
Within yourself

That makes the world
Spinning in its inexorable
Way

A little gentler
A little kinder
A little better than before.

~ Laurence Overmire