Understanding To Reach Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

An understanding to reach it,
Takes more than assuming...
A comprehension is understood.
And with a wish to keep,
Interest invested.
So many accept to collect,
Opinions and hearsay...
To affect their relationships.
Leaving being open and honest,
Dismissed to expect...
Their assumptions to make,
Are more effective...
Than refusing to be direct.
Perceiving to believe,
They participate in quality...
Communication.
With an understanding left,
On the surface.
Void of purpose or depth.

'You don't know them,
Like I do.'

-And what is it that you know? -

'What others have told me.'

-Now I understand.
Why no one is understood.-